Julian Bennett
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- After receiving his Ph.D. in Archaeology from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1991, Julian Bennet started teaching at Bilkent since 1995. His areas of expertise are Roman provincial and military archaeology, and the archaeology and architecture of Late Roman and Byzantine Anatolia. He is the author of numerous monographs and articles on various aspects of Roman and Medieval Britain and the Roman army, and his latest book, Trajan, Optimus Princeps (Routledge/Indiana University Press 1997), has recently appeared in a second revised edition (2001). His fieldwork experience extends from rural and urban salvage excavations in Britain and Germany to current research projects and excavations in Romania and Turkey. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 2002.
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Machiavelli coined the term "Five Good Emperors", including Trajan among them, and it would appear that Bennett primarily aims to explore whether Trajan really deserves to be considered one of the good emperors. Apparently, at least to a large degree, he does; and Bennett establishes that this assessment is not due to a dearth of available information, but based on a sound evaluation of his regime – although he also judges Trajan’s reign to be as autocratic as that of Domitian, only going about it more subtly and indirectly. - In the final chapter (titled "A Perfect Prince?"), Bennett comments regarding Trajan’s Parthian war: "It seems to have been brought about by the need for personal glory alone, a contemporary Falklands Factor, and conforms to a worrying and well-recognized tendency among established political leaders of any period, if especially so of the present, to seek internal prestige by diverting attention away from matters at home and interfering in the affairs of foreign states." – This comparison between Roman imperial policy and that of "political leaders of any period" might be stretching it a bit far. And perhaps Bennett's way of judging a matter such as this is also a contributing factor to why Trajan, the man himself, remains relatively obscure throughout the pages of this book – and it’s more for this reason, rather than because of the excessive dryness of the text, that I ultimately found this (imperial) biography of Trajan a bit of a disappointment. He deserves better.
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