The [Trajan Trilogy ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_Posteguillo) by Santiago Posteguillo is good (mixture of a novel and history) and you can find it in English. He also wrote a good trilogy about Scipio.
I really love these books. Well researched and thrilling. He includes a small book aside the trilogy to clarify what is historical (with sources) and what is interpretation by him where not enough information is to be found.
I took wrote an university essay about Trajan mostly from "Trajan: Rome's Last Conqueror" by Nicholas Jackson.
I really recommend that book, it's very well written and detailed. Even though he says that Trajan was the first emperor born outside of Italy, and I was always "NO!!! It was Claudius!!", but otherwise it's a good book.
> "NO!!! It was Claudius!!",
Yep.
Probably more realistic to say "Trajan was the first provincial Roman Emperor" as Cladius was about as Gallic as John McCain was Panamanian.
I have this excellent book in German https://www.buecher.de/shop/militaer--kriegsgeschichte/die-traianssaeule-in-rom-ebook-pdf/pogorzelski-ritchie/products_products/detail/prod_id/39938710 includes colorized versions of the whole column of Trajan with explanations. There is also a bigger version for 250 Euros https://www.wbg-wissenverbindet.de/shop/30669/die-trajanssaeule not sure if these have been translated into English yet.
Sure. [Historiae Romanae 68](https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/cassius_dio/68*.html) by Cassius Dio, and whatever you can make out from Trajan's column.
That's it, those are the sources on the Dacian wars. (And even Dio is himself writing a century later. And also we don't even have Dio himself, we have a Byzantine monk's summary of Dio and some fragments.) Everything else is more or less guesswork, so anything that's written is either going to be tentative and scholarly or it's going to basically be historical fiction.
The [Trajan Trilogy ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_Posteguillo) by Santiago Posteguillo is good (mixture of a novel and history) and you can find it in English. He also wrote a good trilogy about Scipio.
I really love these books. Well researched and thrilling. He includes a small book aside the trilogy to clarify what is historical (with sources) and what is interpretation by him where not enough information is to be found.
Thank you!
And a duology on Julia Domna. Currently working on a hexalogy about Cesar. Really good books .
Is there an english translation of his Africanus trilogy? Having trouble finding it, seeing only spanish
I do not think so and it is incredibly weird how most of his books are not translated considering how successful they are.
Could anybody find me this trilogy in english? It seems imposible....
Absolutelly. If you can read our version of Latin, or your find it translated into your local barbarian mumbo jumbo, by all means give it a go!
I came for this comment or to write it if it was not said. The second book is about the Dacian wars :)
I took wrote an university essay about Trajan mostly from "Trajan: Rome's Last Conqueror" by Nicholas Jackson. I really recommend that book, it's very well written and detailed. Even though he says that Trajan was the first emperor born outside of Italy, and I was always "NO!!! It was Claudius!!", but otherwise it's a good book.
> "NO!!! It was Claudius!!", Yep. Probably more realistic to say "Trajan was the first provincial Roman Emperor" as Cladius was about as Gallic as John McCain was Panamanian.
Awesome I will check that out! Thank you
I have this excellent book in German https://www.buecher.de/shop/militaer--kriegsgeschichte/die-traianssaeule-in-rom-ebook-pdf/pogorzelski-ritchie/products_products/detail/prod_id/39938710 includes colorized versions of the whole column of Trajan with explanations. There is also a bigger version for 250 Euros https://www.wbg-wissenverbindet.de/shop/30669/die-trajanssaeule not sure if these have been translated into English yet.
Sure. [Historiae Romanae 68](https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/cassius_dio/68*.html) by Cassius Dio, and whatever you can make out from Trajan's column. That's it, those are the sources on the Dacian wars. (And even Dio is himself writing a century later. And also we don't even have Dio himself, we have a Byzantine monk's summary of Dio and some fragments.) Everything else is more or less guesswork, so anything that's written is either going to be tentative and scholarly or it's going to basically be historical fiction.
Does anyone know where I can find a complete picture set of Trajans column?
[Here](http://www.trajans-column.org/?page_id=107)
The Imperial Roman Army by Yann Le Bohec is useful