🪷 8 Aug 117 AD LGBT turning point: #Trajan's death paves way for #Hadrian to be emperor: Were #Antinous & Hadrian really "gay"? Scholars quibbled until 2008 when #britishmuseum curator #ThorstenOpper declared: "Hadrian was gay and we can say that now." https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-accession-of-hadrian-as-emperor-of.html 🪷

🪷 8 Aug 117 AD LGBT turning point: #Trajan's death paves way for #Hadrian to be emperor: Were #Antinous & Hadrian really "gay"? Scholars quibbled until 2008 when @britishmuseum curator #ThorstenOpper declared: "Hadrian was gay and we can say that now." https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-accession-of-hadrian-as-emperor-of.html 🪷

🪷 8 Aug 117 AD LGBT turning point: #Trajan's death paves way for #Hadrian to be emperor: Were #Antinous & Hadrian really "gay"? Scholars quibbled until 2008 when #britishmuseum curator #ThorstenOpper declared: "Hadrian was gay and we can say that now." https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-accession-of-hadrian-as-emperor-of.html 🪷

🪷 On 9 July 118 AD #Hadrian entered Rome as Emperor and Pontifex Maximus after succeeding #Trajan. He would proclaim his male lover #Antinous a deity, a god of love and miracles who rivaled Jesus at this crucial turning point in #LGBTQIA history. https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-day-hadrian-was-declared-emperor-of.html 🪷

🪷 On 9 July 118 AD #Hadrian entered Rome as Emperor and Pontifex Maximus after succeeding #Trajan. He would proclaim his male lover #Antinous a deity, a god of love and miracles who rivaled Jesus at this crucial turning point in #LGBTQIA history. https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-day-hadrian-was-declared-emperor-of.html 🪷

🪷 On 9 July 118 AD #Hadrian entered Rome as Emperor and Pontifex Maximus after succeeding #Trajan. He would proclaim his male lover #Antinous a deity, a god of love and miracles who rivaled Jesus at this crucial turning point in #LGBTQIA history. https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-day-hadrian-was-declared-emperor-of.html 🪷

🪷 February 24th is the Transylvania feast of #Dragobete, god of Love, Spring, snowdrops and wolves. Parents: #Dacia's loveliest maiden & Roman Emperor #Trajan, who conquered the #Dacian empire. The wolf is Rome. It's said if you hug anyone today, your love life will be fabulous all year! 🪷

A fun game of Trajan at the weekend. My first time playing this one. I like it but i prefer Castles of Burgundy. #boardgames #trajan #stefanfeld

Emperor Trajan between columns

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This short analysis will investigate the associations known as 'collegia' (also known as clubs, associations, companies) mentioned in the letters (10.33-34) from the Roman pro-consul Pliny to the emperor Trajan. We will determine why Trajan was against the formation of such an association in Pontus-Bithynia, as well as place the nature of collegia in the wider historical narrative. I will concl...https://www.worldhistory.org/article/816/collegia-stability-and-the-vox-populi/ #Collegia #Epistles #Trajan #History

Imagining the alternate timeline where the #RomanEmpire collapses because #Trajan is swamped by MS Teams messages from #PlinyTheElder and can't get anything done.

Trajan's Market is the name given in the early 20th century CE to a complex of buildings in the imperial fora of Rome constructed in 107-110 CE during the reign of Trajan. The complex included a covered market, small shop fronts and a residential apartment block.
https://www.worldhistory.org/article/616/trajans-market/ #RomanArchitecture #Rome #Trajan

Trajan after a very bad night out.
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek.

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A Roman coin struck during Trajan's reign in Arabia. Standing Arabia is depicted in the coin.

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