The Emperor Hadrian

Author : Anthony R Birley,Anthony R. Birley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135952334

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Hadrian by Anthony R Birley,Anthony R. Birley Pdf

Hadrian's reign (AD 117-138) was a watershed in the history of the Roman Empire. Hadrian abandoned his predecessor Trajan's eastern conquests - Mesopotamia and Armenia - trimmed down the lands beyond the lower Danube, and constructed new demarcation lines in Germany, North Africa, and most famously Hadrian's Wall in Britain, to delimit the empire. The emperor Hadrian, a strange and baffling figure to his contemporaries, had a many-sided personality. Insatiably ambitious, and a passionate Philhellene, he promoted the 'Greek Renaissance' extravagantly. But his attempt to Hellenize the Jews, including the outlawing of circumcision, had disastrous consequences, and his 'Greek' love of the beautiful Bithynian boy Antinous ended in tragedy. No comprehensive account of Hadrian's life and reign has been attempted for over seventy years. In Hadrian: The Restless Emperor, Anthony Birley brings together the new evidence from inscriptions and papyri, and up-to-date and in-depth examination of the work of other scholars on aspects of Hadrian's reign and policies such as the Jewish war, the coinage, Hadrian's building programme in Rome, Athens and Tivoli, and his relationship with his favourite, Antinous, to provide a thorough and fascinating account of the private and public life of a man who, though hated when he died, left an indelible mark on the Roman Empire.

Author : Anthony R Birley,Anthony R. Birley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135952266

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Hadrian by Anthony R Birley,Anthony R. Birley Pdf

Hadrian's reign (AD 117-138) was a watershed in the history of the Roman Empire. Hadrian abandoned his predecessor Trajan's eastern conquests - Mesopotamia and Armenia - trimmed down the lands beyond the lower Danube, and constructed new demarcation lines in Germany, North Africa, and most famously Hadrian's Wall in Britain, to delimit the empire. The emperor Hadrian, a strange and baffling figure to his contemporaries, had a many-sided personality. Insatiably ambitious, and a passionate Philhellene, he promoted the 'Greek Renaissance' extravagantly. But his attempt to Hellenize the Jews, including the outlawing of circumcision, had disastrous consequences, and his 'Greek' love of the beautiful Bithynian boy Antinous ended in tragedy. No comprehensive account of Hadrian's life and reign has been attempted for over seventy years. In Hadrian: The Restless Emperor, Anthony Birley brings together the new evidence from inscriptions and papyri, and up-to-date and in-depth examination of the work of other scholars on aspects of Hadrian's reign and policies such as the Jewish war, the coinage, Hadrian's building programme in Rome, Athens and Tivoli, and his relationship with his favourite, Antinous, to provide a thorough and fascinating account of the private and public life of a man who, though hated when he died, left an indelible mark on the Roman Empire.

Author : Anthony Everitt
Publisher : Random House
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781588368966

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Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome by Anthony Everitt Pdf

“A fascinating insight into the mind of the Roman emperor.”—Sunday Telegraph (London) Born in A.D. 76, Hadrian lived through and ruled during a tempestuous era, a time when the Colosseum was opened to the public and Pompeii was buried under a mountain of lava and ash. Acclaimed author Anthony Everitt vividly recounts Hadrian’s thrilling life, in which the emperor brings a century of disorder and costly warfare to a peaceful conclusion while demonstrating how a monarchy can be compatible with good governance. What distinguished Hadrian’s rule, according to Everitt, were two insights that inevitably ensured the empire’s long and prosperous future: He ended Rome’s territorial expansion, which had become strategically and economically untenable, by fortifying her boundaries (the many famed Walls of Hadrian), and he effectively “Hellenized” Rome by anointing Athens the empire’s cultural center, thereby making Greek learning and art vastly more prominent in Roman life. By making splendid use of recently discovered archaeological materials and his own exhaustive research, Everitt sheds new light on one of the most important figures of the ancient world.

Author : Bernard William Henderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015025889562

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The Life and Principate of the Emperor Hadrian, A.D. 76-138 by Bernard William Henderson Pdf

Author : Thorsten Opper
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Emperors
ISBN : 0674030958

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Hadrian by Thorsten Opper Pdf

"Hadrian, a Roman emperor, the builder of Hadrian's Wall in the north of England, a restless and ambitious man who was interested in architecture and was passionate about Greece and Greek culture. Is this the common image today of the ruler of one of the greatest powers of the ancient world?" "Published to complement a major exhibition at the British Museum, this wide-ranging book rediscovers Hadrian. The sharp contradictions in his personality are examined, previous concepts are questioned and myths that surround him are exploded." --Book Jacket.

Author : Thorsten Opper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art, Roman
ISBN : UOM:39015079148923

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The Emperor Hadrian by Thorsten Opper Pdf

The Roman Empire, ruled by its emperors, was one of the greatest powers of the ancient world. Hadrian (c. AD117138) reigned for twenty-one years in its Golden Age and is perhaps best known today for his great wall in the north of England. However, this was just one of his celebrated achievements. He was indeed a creator of magnificent buildings and structures that were architecturally daring, but he was also a skilled military leader and strategist; a tireless traveller who roamed his enormous empire and its boundaries; a well-educated man who loved the Arts and was passionate about Greece and Greek culture. This informative and beautifully illustrated little book presents a concise portrait of Hadrian his family, his deeds, his loves, his dark side and his legacy. A potted biography is followed by picture-and-caption spreads that amplify the details of his life. These feature art and artefacts from museum collections around the world, as well as specially commissioned photographs of the Pantheon, the Villa Adriani, his mausoleum. The Emperor Hadrian is not only a celebration of a remarkable individual but a wonderful introduction to a fascinating period of Roman history.

Author : Ferdinand Gregorovius
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Emperors
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041495339

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The Emperor Hadrian by Ferdinand Gregorovius Pdf

Author : James Morwood
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849668866

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Hadrian by James Morwood Pdf

A lively short biography of one of the best known Roman emperors.

Author : Mary T. Boatwright
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691187211

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Hadrian and the Cities of the Roman Empire by Mary T. Boatwright Pdf

Cities throughout the Roman Empire flourished during the reign of Hadrian (A.D. 117-138), a phenomenon that not only strengthened and legitimized Roman dominion over its possessions but also revealed Hadrian as a masterful negotiator of power relationships. In this comprehensive investigation into the vibrant urban life that existed under Hadrian's rule, Mary T. Boatwright focuses on the emperor's direct interactions with Rome's cities, exploring the many benefactions for which he was celebrated on coins and in literary works and inscriptions. Although such evidence is often as imprecise as it is laudatory, its collective analysis, undertaken for the first time together with all other related material, reveals that over 130 cities received at least one benefaction directly from Hadrian. The benefactions, mediated by members of the empire's municipal elite, touched all aspects of urban life; they included imperial patronage of temples and hero tombs, engineering projects, promotion of athletic and cultural competitions, settlement of boundary disputes, and remission of taxes. Even as he manifested imperial benevolence, Hadrian reaffirmed the self-sufficiency and traditions of cities from Spain to Syria, the major exception being his harsh treatment of Jerusalem, which sparked the Third Jewish Revolt. Overall, the assembled evidence points to Hadrian's recognition of imperial munificence to cities as essential to the peace and prosperity of the empire. Boatwright's treatment of Hadrian and Rome's cities is unique in that it encompasses events throughout the empire, drawing insights from archaeology and art history as well as literature, economy, and religion.

Author : Elizabeth Speller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0195176138

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Following Hadrian by Elizabeth Speller Pdf

One of the greatest - and most enigmatic - Roman emperors, Hadrian stabilized the imperial borders, established peace throughout the empire, patronized the arts, and built an architectural legacy that lasts to this day: the great villa at Tivoli, the domed wonder of the Pantheon, and the eponymous wall that stretches across Britain. Yet the story of his reign is also a tale of intrigue, domestic discord, and murder. In Following Hadrian, Elizabeth Speller illuminates the fascinating life of Hadrian, rule of the most powerful empire on earth at the peak of its glory. Speller displays a superb gift for narrative as she traces the intrigue of Hadrian's rise, making brilliant use of her sources and vividly depicting Hadrian's bouts of melancholy, his intellectual passions, his love for a beautiful boy (whose death sent him into a spiral), and the paradox of his general policies of peace and religious tolerance even as he conducted a bitter, three-year war with Judea. Most important, the author captures the emperor as both a builder and an inveterate traveler, guiding readers on a grand tour of the Roman Empire at the moment of its greatest extent and accomplishment.

Author : Marco Rizzi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110224719

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Hadrian and the Christians by Marco Rizzi Pdf

The Second Century occupies a central place in the development of ancient Christianity. The aim of the book is to examine how in the cultural, social, and religious efflorescence of the Second Century,to be witnessed inphenomena such as the Second Sophistic, Christianity found a peculiar way of integrating into the more general transformation of the Empire and how this allowed the emerging religion to establish and flourish in Graeco-Roman society. Hadrian’s reign was the starting point ofthat process and opened new possibilities of self-definition and external self-presentation to Christianity, as well asto other social and religious agencies. Differently from Judaism, however, Christianity fully seized the opportunity,thus gaining an increasing place in Graeco-Roman society, which ultimately led to the first Christian peace under the Severan emperors. The point at issue is examined from a multi-disciplinary perspective (including archaeology, cultural, religious, and political history) to challenge well-established, but no longer satisfactory, historical and hermeneutical paradigms. The contributors aim to examine institutional issues and sociocultural processes in their different aspects, as they were made possibleon Hadrian’s initiative andresulted inthemerge of early Christianityinto the Roman Empire.

Author : Bernard W. Henderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Rome
ISBN : OCLC:1067584034

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The Life and Principate of the Emperor Hadrian, A.D. 76-138 by Bernard W. Henderson Pdf

Author : Julian Morgan
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0823935930

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Hadrian by Julian Morgan Pdf

A biography of the Roman emperor and general who extended the empire's frontiers as far as England and brought Rome to the height of its power.

Author : Christopher Rimare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1450256929

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Blinded by Paradise by Christopher Rimare Pdf

Emperor Hadrian's personal motives are spurring him to become the most accomplished, talented, and controversial Roman emperor ever. As he rises to power through external, secretive machinations, Hadrian is driven by a lust for accomplishment and a search for provocative male companionship. Hadrian embarks on an epic journey across the vast expanse of his empire, encountering inspiring legends and unsuspecting dangers along the way. As his physical odyssey turns into a quest of self-discovery, he opens himself up to the ancient Mysteries of Eleusis, creates the architectural masterpiece of the Pantheon, and discovers love in an unexpected place. As Hadrian immerses himself in an enduring love affair with Antinous, a handsome and alluring young Greek man, their relationship acts as a catalyst that pushes Hadrian's dream of spiritually inspiring his populace to the forefront though in ways the emperor never could have imagined. Blinded by Paradise is an intimate portrayal of a larger-than-life emperor suddenly faced with a life-altering decision to pursue either the beautiful realms of the Elysian Fields or the violent depths of Hell.

Author : T. Corey Brennan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190250997

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Sabina Augusta by T. Corey Brennan Pdf

"Sabina Augusta: an Imperial Journey synthesizes the textual and (massive) material evidence on the empress Sabina (born ca. 85--died ca. 137). The book traces the development of Sabina's partnership with her husband, the emperor Hadrian (reigned 117-138), and shows the vital importance of the empress for Hadrian's own aspirations" --