Hadrian: The Restless Emperor by Anthony R. Birley
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Overview: 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.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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