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Technique, Toil, and Triumph on The Danube in Trajan's Propaganda Programme

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

L. Rossi
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Summary

Trajan's engineering works on the Danube as part of his Dacian campaign of A.D. 101–106 are commemorated on monuments and coins as part of imperial propaganda. Trajan's Column shows an unrecognized depiction of canal-building on the Danube, next to a supply-base scene. Coin imagery illustrates the use of the Danube as a line of communication and the enrolment of the great river on the side of the Romans in their conquest of Dacia.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 58 , Issue 1 , March 1978 , pp. 81 - 87
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1978

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