{"id":103751,"date":"2026-11-07T02:00:32","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T07:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=103751"},"modified":"2026-07-19T22:53:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T02:53:55","slug":"trajan-and-hadrian-20-the-conquered-and-the-proud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/trajan-and-hadrian-20-the-conquered-and-the-proud\/","title":{"rendered":"Trajan and Hadrian &#8211; 20: The Conquered and the Proud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rKSw0dgyo28?si=LU2lngtc_7kO8Pu2\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Adrian Goldsworthy. Historian and Novelist<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 29 Apr 2026<\/p>\n<p>Today we think about the careers of the emperors Trajan and Hadrian, Roman aristocrats from Spain. Gibbon included them among the five good emperors who presided over the height of the Roman empire. Trajan was remembered fondly by the Roman elite, but is less well known today. Hadrian is more famous, generally remembered as good, but was bitterly unpopular with the Senate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adrian Goldsworthy. Historian and Novelist Published 29 Apr 2026 Today we think about the careers of the emperors Trajan and Hadrian, Roman aristocrats from Spain. Gibbon included them among the five good emperors who presided over the height of the Roman empire. Trajan was remembered fondly by the Roman elite, but is less well known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[62,84,7],"tags":[1566,1598,396,1343,553,1630],"class_list":["post-103751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-government","category-history","tag-adriangoldsworthy","tag-hadrian","tag-monarchy","tag-romanempire","tag-senate","tag-trajan"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qZp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103751"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105788,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103751\/revisions\/105788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}