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	Cassius Dio Roman History Epitome of Book 67
		Decebalus, learning of his advance, became frightened, since he well knew that on the former occasion it was not the Romans that he had conquered, but Domitian, whereas now he would be fighting against both Romans and Trajan, the emperor.
		Decebalus then sent an invitation to Longinus, a leader of the Roman army who had made himself a terror to the king in the wars, and persuaded him to meet him, on the pretext that he would do whatever should be demanded.
		Decebalus, when his capital and all his territory had been occupied and he was himself in danger of being captured, committed suicide; and his head was brought to Rome.
	www.brainfly.net /html/books/diocas68.htm (6202 words)

	Statue of Decebalus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Statue of Dacian king Decebalus is a 40-meter high statue that is the tallest rock sculpture in Europe.
		The idea was of Romanian businessman and historian Iosif Constantin Drăgan and it took 10 years for the 12 sculptors to finish it and in the end, it costed over a million dollars.
		Right in front of the statue, but on the Serbian shore, facing Romania can be found an ancient memorial plaque ("Tabula Traiana"), commemorating the victories of Roman Empire over the Dacian kingdom in 105.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Statue_of_Decebalus (177 words)

	ROMAN ART - LoveToKnow Article on ROMAN ART
		Reduced copies of statues are found in the decoration of such capitals in the baths of Caracalla; the capitals with Victories and trophies in S. Lorenzo Fuori also belonged to a building of pagan times..
		The attitude of the figure is that of an imperator addressing his army; but there is a characteristic blending of the real with the ideal, for the emperor is not only bareheaded hut barefoot, and beside him is a tiny cupid riding on a dolphin, which indicates the descent of the Julian house from Venus.
		The fact is that the secret of organic structure has been lost; the bust (or statue) is no longer a true portrait, a block of marble made to pulsate with the life of the subject represented, but a monument.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RO/ROMAN_ART.htm (12683 words)

	Introductory Essay
		Nonetheless, Trajan and his army were victorious, and he returned to Rome the next year to celebrate a fine triumph and to receive the award of the title "Dacicus." All was not well on the Danube, however, and Trajan returned to Dacia in 105.
		Naturally, the greatest honour went to Trajan himself, who was immortalised by a great equestrian statue, cast in bronze, gilded, and placed atop a pedestal in the centre of the piazza.
		The base of this statue has recently been discovered in the centre of the Forum piazza, and its measurements give us an idea of the size of the horse which Constantius desired to copy: the horse and rider together (not including the base) may have been as much as 12 metres tall.
	cheiron.humanities.mcmaster.ca /~trajan/introductory_essay.html (3883 words)

	Statue of Decebalus: Just the facts... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Statue of Dacian king Decebalus (additional info and facts about Decebalus) is a 40-meter high statue that is the tallest rock sculpture in Europe.
		It is located on the Danube (The 2nd longest European river; flows into the Black Sea) rocky bank, near the city of Orşova (additional info and facts about Orşova), Romania (A Balkan republic in southeastern Europe).
		Under the face of Decebal can be read in Latin "DECEBAL REX - DRAGAN FECIT" ("King Decebal - Made by Dragan").
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/st/statue_of_decebalus.htm (115 words)

	Perfect Tour >> THE STATUE OF KING DECEBAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		On the Danube rocky side, close to the small city of Orsova, a huge mountain rock was sculpted as the head of Decebalus, the last King of the ancient Dacia.
		The statue of the heroic king was realized on the model of the famous one, representing the four U.S. presidents sculpted in the rock of Mount Rushmore.
		In front of the rock figure of Decebalus, on the Serbia shore, there can be seen the 2000 years old Tabula Traiana, a monument erected by his enemy, Emperor Trajan, in order to mark the march of the Imperial Roman troops towards Dacia.
	www.perfect-tour.ro /en/int_tour/decebal.html (247 words)

	Buddhas of Bamiyan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two monumental statues of standing Buddhas carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamiyan valley of central Afghanistan, situated 230 km northwest of Kabul at an altitude of 2500 meters.
		This coating, practically all of which was worn away long ago, was painted to enhance the expressions of the faces, hands and folds of the robes.
		The lower parts of the statues' arms were constructed from the same mud-straw mix while supported on wooden armatures.
	www.kiwipedia.com /en/buddha-statues-of-bamiyan.html (195 words)

	The Story of Trajan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Decebalus was the King of Dacia at the time.
		Now, most people think that Decebalus killed himself when he realized that he was defeated, but this is not the case.
		Trajan was outraged that Decebalus had lied to him, so he took matters into his own hands.
	students.ou.edu /W/Richard.D.Wagner-1/story5.html (891 words)

	Dr.N.Savescu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Whereas Decebalus' politico-economical construction works were feverishly, buy resolutely carried out, in Rome, Domitianus' "establishment" was gradually getting very displeased, even sickened with his "grand style" show-offs, perpetual orgies and irresponsible Treasury's spending, to speak nothing about his opened despotism or the newly-born Christianity's savage repression campaigns.
		DECEBALUS' RESIDENCE Motto: "Whoever longs for a Master, Servant is to be called." The World's History seems, at times, strange and still extremely controversial.
		Along the Palace's upper esplanade, a presumed statue of King Decebalus himself could be seen, unless the sculpture might have as well represented one of his great predecessors, being dressed up in the Dacian specific national costumation.
	www.dr-savescu.com /history/hiseng.html (4374 words)

	Wolf Warriors: the Romans, the Dacians and the Vlachs; Dracula and Hitler
		It was particularly identified with the statue brought to Italy by the hero Aeneas after Troy's destruction and preserved in the shrine of the goddess Vesta at Rome.
		In a similar bas-relief of white marble found in Italy, at Bologna, are represented, bellow the bull, the wolf, the serpent and scorpion, the two torch-bearers, and above the one to the left the raven.
		There were discovered two pairs of statues of these torch-bearers are accompanied by inscriptions, from which we learn that the one who held up his torch was called Cautes, and that the one who held down his torch was called Cautopates.
	www.angelfire.com /realm/vlachs (15588 words)

	FORI IMPERIALI
		The attic storeys of the Basilica facade and the entrance arch to the Forum (pictures of both of which were displayed on the coinage and circulated throughout the Empire) carried gilded bronze statues of the Emperor and Victory surrounded by trophies of arms, whilst the attics of the porticoes carried marble statues of Dacian prisoners.
		An enormous bronze statue of Trajan on horseback, also reproduced on coins and described in the literary sources, stood in the centre of the square.
		Originally surmounted by an eagle, this was replaced with a statue of Trajan after his ashes were buried in the column base, an eventuality which had certainly not been envisaged in the original design, and which had the effect of turning it into a mausoleum.
	www.traiano.com /inglese/testi_html/tx_progetto_propagandistico.htm (650 words)

	Trajan - Wikipedia
		Dort hatte Decebalus nach dem Ende der Kämpfe mit Domitian seine Herrschaft weiter ausgebaut und stellte nun mehr denn je eine Bedrohung der südlich der Donau gelegenen Provinzen dar.
		Decebalus hielt sich aber nicht an die strengen Bedingungen des Friedensvertrages und bedrohte weiterhin römisches Gebiet.
		Nicht zuletzt deshalb kam es 105 zu einem zweiten Dakerkrieg, in dessen Verlauf Dakien vollständig von den Römern erobert und zur Provinz gemacht wurde.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trajan (1733 words)

	Trajan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A splendid public bathing complex was erected on the Esquiline Hill, and a magnificent new forum was designed by the architect Apollodorus of Damascus.
		It comprised a porticoed square in the centre of which stood a colossal equestrian statue of the emperor.
		The statue of Trajan on top of the column was removed during the Middle Ages and replaced in 1588 by the present one of St. Peter.
	history-world.org /trajan.htm (1812 words)

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		Decebalus, the Dacian king, was forced to capitulate in 102 and swore allegiance to Rome, effectively becoming a "client king".
		Trajan's motives for taking the field were probably mixed, as this victory served as both to shore up the eastern front of the empire, and to consolidate his support from citizens and senators in Rome.
		This was not the last of Decebalus, however, and trouble-making on his part forced Trajan to again lead forces into Dacia.
	www.mta.ca /faculty/humanities/classics/Course_Materials/clas3031/projects/main_et_al.html (3383 words)

	imperatores (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In 101 he resumed the invasion of Dacia that Domitian had been forced to abandon by Decebalus, the country's redoubtable king.
		Trajan created a new province of Dacia; this provided land for Roman settlers, opened for exploitation rich mines of gold and salt, and established a defensive zone to absorb movements of nomads from the steppes of southern Russia.
		Statues of the boy became a common sight.
	www.the-colosseum.net /history/imperatores.htm (3461 words)

	Trajan Decius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Decebalus, however, once left to his own devices, undertook to challenge Rome again, by raids across the Danube into Roman territory and by attempting to stir up some of the tribes north of the river against her.
		It was a brutal struggle, with some of the characteristics of a war of extirpation, until the Dacian king, driven from his capital of Sarmizegethusa and hunted like an animal, chose to commit suicide rather than to be paraded in a Roman triumph and then be put to death.
		In the open courtyard before it was an equestrian statue of Trajan, behind it was the column; there were libraries, one for Latin scrolls, the other for Greek, on each side.
	www.ancientplace.com /catalog/item/810868/420887.htm (4306 words)

	The Dacian State, From Burebista To Decebalus
		Duras gives the throne of Dacia to Diurpaneus (87) and the new king receives the name of Decebalus, which means "the powerful one", "the brave one".
		Domitianus is defeated in Pannonia by some Germanic populations and renounces at the war with the Dacians.
		Diegis, the brother of Decebalus, participated at the negotiations.
	www.geocities.com /cogaionon/article3.htm (1096 words)

	XXVI. To the Emperor Trajan. Pliny the Younger. 1909-14. Letters. The Harvard Classics.
		Particular temples, altars, and statues were allowed among the Romans as places of privilege and sanctuary to slaves, debtors, and malefactors, This custom was introduced by Romulus, who borrowed it probably from the Greeks;’ but during the free state of Rome, few of these asylums were permitted.
		This custom prevailed most under the emperors, till it grew so scandalous that the Emperor Pius found it necessary to restrain those privileged places by an edict.
		The second expedition of Trajan against Decebalus was undertaken the same year that Pliny went governor into this province; the reason therefore why Pliny sent this Callidromus to the emperor seems to be that some use might possibly be made of him in favour of that design.
	www.bartleby.com /9/4/2026.html (220 words)

	BS Foundations chapter 2
		While the divination of a woman was not all that unusual, the choice of one who had done absolutely nothing of merit except sleep with her brother was a bit much.
		His plans to erect a statue of himself in the Temple in Jerusalem provoked a storm of protest.
		The palace and the statue fed rumors that Nero had started the fire himself, and to deflect attention, he sought a scapegoat.
	www.oglethorpe.edu /faculty/~b_smith/ou/bs_foundations_chapter2.htm (20674 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Marcus Aurelius
		He was leading a life which gave him as much honor and glory as he could have desired, probably much more than his private nature enjoyed, yet his life, and that of the empire, was soon to change.
		Trajan had brought great wealth, Decebalus' treasure, into the empire after his conquest of Dacia.
		The famous equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, which survived the centuries near San Giovanni in Laterano because the rider was identified as Constantine, no longer greets the visitor to the Capitoline, where Michelangelo had placed it in the sixteenth century.
	www.roman-emperors.org /marcaur.htm (4243 words)

	rogueclassicism
		The bare breasts of Boudicca’s two daughters in the statue that stands opposite Big Ben are grim (no doubt unintentional) reminders of the tortures inflicted by the warrior queen.
		Matyszak tells their stories stylishly and well, but it is when he turns his attention to leaders whose lives have not been endlessly dug over that his book comes into its own.
		Vriathus, the freedom fighter who took to the hills, harassing heavily armoured legions with hit-and-run raids; Decebalus, the charismatic war hero who led his people in a desperate independence struggle: here, for the historian of Roman imperialism, are two particularly suggestive archetypes.
	www.atrium-media.com /rogueclassicism/2004/11/14.html (3135 words)

	Classics 219: The Roman Empire: Pliny, Letters
		However, it is more agreeable to my disposition to suppose that prince designed he should be restored to his former situation; especially since he so often had the honor of a statue decreed to him by those, who could not be ignorant of the sentence pronounced against him by the proconsul Paulus.
		He added, at the same time, that in this building, in which your statue is erected, the bodies of Dios wife and son are entombed: and urged me to hear this cause in the public court of judicature.
		I have inspected the buildings in question, where I find your statue is placed in a library; and as to the edifice in which the bodies of Dio's wife and son are said to be deposited, it stands in the middle of an area surrounded with a colonnade.
	www.princeton.edu /~champlin/cla219/219pliny.htm (11316 words)

	Encyclopedia: Statue of Decebalus
		FACTOID # 39: The eight most developed countries all speak Germanic languages.
		Decebalus, from Trajans Column Decebalus (ruled 87-106 CE) (Decebal in Romanian) was a Dacian king.
		This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Statue-of-Decebalus (406 words)

	colonna traiana
		Over 40 m high, the Column contains approximately 2.500 figures in various scenes, illustrating episodes of the Dacian campaigns won by Trajan and culminating in the death of the Dacian king Decebalus.
		The plinth of the Column, wich is of enormous artistic value, housed the ashes of the Emperor as well, possibly, as his mementoes.
		The summit can be reached by a spiral staircase and originally bore the statue of Trajan, replaced under Pape Sixtus V by one of St. Peter.
	www.traiano.com /inglese/testi_html/monumenti03.htm (81 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.03.12
		As to the question "How did the towns die?", D. points out that with the exception of those in Dacia Inferior, the settlements of Roman Dacia were not touched by barbarian attack during the third century, and there was no organized or premeditated evacuation of the province.
		The factors that decided the specific types of monuments in each center range from the status of the settlement (whether chiefly civilian or military) to the origins of the artisans, the particular taste of the colonists, and the customers.
		Focusing on the dedications to Glykon and the statue of Hekate Triformis, S. concludes that "the images of deities, the cults and the language of the old homeland will have served to bind together and confirm the minority who had come from Asia Minor" (187).
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2005/2005-03-12.html (3144 words)

	Papers
		While some may argue that polytheism does the same, the deification of gods as carved statues, is non-nature, since nature has no direct effect on the idol; the idol, for Zalmoxis is a contrivance of man out of touch with mystery.
		But idols and statues, invented by men do not exist in nature; they cannot drink milk or honey; they are not alive, and therefore possess no mystery.
		In a fatal moment Zalmoxis lunges at the statue and crashes it to the ground, while the people, mistaking him as a profaner in their confusion and frenzy, kill him with chunks of the broken statue.
	www.bucovinamica.net /papers.htm (6911 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 945 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Hymn, in Del. 255.) The religious reverence of Datis is further illustrated by the anecdote of his restoring the statue of Apollo which some Phoenicians in his army had stolen from Delium in Boeotia.
		§ 5) remarks, that the statues of Apollo Pythius and Decatephorus at Megara re sembled Egvptian sculptures.
		10), and that the individual best known to history as the Decebalus of Dion Cassius is named Diurpaneus by Orosius, and DorpJianeus by Jornandes.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0951.html (926 words)

	Electronic Text Archive
		At the beginning of the Christian era the district now known as Transylvania formed part of the kingdom of Dacia, and in 107 A.D., on the subjugation by Trajan of Decebalus, the last Dacian sovereign, it was incorporated in the Roman province of the same name.
		On the exterior of the choir-wall are statues of the twelve Apostles, surrounded with foliage, once gilded, but now perfectly fl.
		The altar was designed by Bartesch of Kronstadt, and carved by Schonthaler of Vienna in 1866; the altar-piece, representing Christ among the `weary and heavy-laden', is by Martersteig of Weimar.
	depts.washington.edu /cartah/text_archive/baed/b_alla.shtml (8327 words)

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