CLST 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Antoninus Pius, Arabia Petraea, Julia Domna
28 Sep 2017
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In the same year that dacia was captured, so was arabia petraea, the capital of which was petra. The people there were called nabataeans (arabic speaking). In addition to his building program, trajan initiated (or perhaps continued) the alimento program, which involved feeing and educating the poor children of italy. Although it was imperially funded, it could also be private, as is the case where pliny the younger talks about funding a school in comum (como). * the nourishment of italy alimenta italiae. In a. d 110, the parthians dethroned the roman client king of armenia. Three years later, trajan led an army eastwards to retake armenia. Within an year, armenia was captured, as was mesopotamia. In 115, trajan captured the parthian capital (now iraq), ctesiphon, and accepted yet anther name. Like his cousin, trajan, hadrian was from italica in spain. He was the one who pulled back and built the wall.
