The "secret" journeys of Emperor Hadrian have been discovered on a white marble slab in an ancient Roman city. The white marble, found in the Ostia Antica archeological park, southwest of Rome, ...
Any city awaiting a visit from a Roman emperor would have thrummed with anticipation, but for Athenians in A.D. 124, the expectation was even greater. Hadrian, whose realm stretched from Britain to ...
When the Roman emperor Hadrian ascended to power in A.D. 117, he inherited a state in crisis. Trajan, his predecessor, had stretched the Roman Empire to its furthest reaches through aggressive ...
London / New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. Pp. xviii, 130. Illus., map, chron., notes, biblio., index. $24.95 paper. ISBN: 1849668868 A Life of Hadrian, soldier, emperor ...