Understanding Power and Post-Truth Politics in the Age of Nerva and Trajan

因此，我的论文的重点将是审查和建立一个准确的政治局势，通过90年代的图密善皇帝的统治瓦解，涅瓦夺取政权和图拉真出现作为继承人的图片。通过了解权力的动态（谁拥有命令，对多少人，他们构成了威胁，他们对谁构成了威胁），我希望展示图拉真如何能够确立自己作为涅尔瓦的继承人，开创了“收养皇帝”的时代。这将通过对铭文和文凭证据的仔细分析来实现，随着新资料的出版，这些证据将继续扩大我们的理解，以及最近在两项研究中重新整理但尚未与叙事奖学金相结合的涅尔瓦和图拉真的钱币学证据。

The key focus of my thesis would therefore be to examine and establish as accurate a picture of the political situation through the 90s AD as Emperor Domitian's rule unravelled, Nerva seized power and Trajan emerged as the heir. By understanding the power dynamics at play (who held commands, over how many men, did they constitute a threat, to whom were they a threat) I hope to demonstrate how Trajan was able to establish himself as the heir to Nerva, ushering in the era of the "adoptive emperors". This will be achieved through careful analysis of epigraphic and diploma evidence, which continue to broaden our understanding as new sources are published, and the numismatic evidence for Nerva and Trajan which has recently been re-collated in two studies but not yet combined with the narrative scholarship.