Trajan's Roads

New forum apolodorus bt in rome, as well as an extensive bath complex that covered up the final remains of nero's golden palace. He also built a new road from beneventum to prundicium to provide an alternative to the winding and heavily trafficd appian way. Roads elsewhere in italy and the provinces were expanded, up graded, rebuilt and generally improved. We are lucky to have at our disposal the letters of pliny the younger, a contemporary and friend of trajan's. Had not pliny been left childless, he might never have been compelled to publish his correspondence so that he would be remembered by some one, any one out