Hadrian
76-138
Roman Emperor
During his more than 20 years as emperor, Hadrian traveled throughout Rome's vast empire, ensuring the well being of its citizens, building its defenses, and overse...
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The Roman emperor Hadrian (76-138), or Publius Aelius Hadrianus, reversed the expansionist policies of Rome in a permanent shift to the defensive.Hadrian was born in Rome on Jan. 24, 76. A ward of his...
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In the following excerpt, Henderson examines Hadrian's leisure activities and evaluates his contribution to literature.
1. Relaxation
So the day drew towards evening.
Hadrian had returned from ...
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In the following excerpt, Alexander presents Hadrian's major concerns as an emperor based on an examination of his extant official documents and speeches.
The Emperor Hadrian is generally credi...
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In the following essay, Hadas surveys Latin literature during the reign of Hadrian.
Hadrian was the first of the Roman emperors to wear a beard, and the neatly trimmed archaism is a sign manifest of t...
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In the following essay, den Boer describes some of the difficulties in determining and reconciling Hadrian's views on religion, tracing them to three distinct phases in the emperor's dev...
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In the following excerpt, Williams examines edicts and letters of Hadrian as documentary evidence that sheds light on the emperor's personal traits.
1. Internal Evidence and the Authorship of I...
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In the following essay, Schoolfield surveys assorted nineteenth and twentieth century poetic interpretations of Hadrian's relationship with the youth Antinous.
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The Emperor Hadrian, who is the...
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In the following essay, Griffiths sets forth the argument that Hadrian may have been influenced by the Egyptian concept of the ba, a bird with a human head, when he describes the soul in his most cele...
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In the following essay, Birley summarizes Hadrian's accomplishments and reviews his reputation.
animula vagula blandula, hospes comesque corporis, quo nunc abibis? in loca pallidula rigida nubi...
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Hadrian was born in Italica on the fifth day before the Kalends of February in the seventh consulship of Vepasian and the fifth of Titus. Once we consider the different calendars Hadrian's birth oc...
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Hadrian
Hadrian
