Hadrian: the restless emperor

by Birley, Anthony Richard

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Title Statements

Full title :Hadrian : the restless emperor / Anthony R. Birley.

Summary

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, I have 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 program in Rome, Athens and Tivoli, and his relationship with his favorite, 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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2000. c1997.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2000. c1997.

The Physical Object

Description:xvii, 399 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0415228123, 9780415228121, 041516544X, 9780415165440
oclc:ocm44540261
LC Classification:DG295
Dewey Decimal:937

Subjects

Biographies Empereurs -- Biographies. -- Rome Emperors Emperors -- Biography. -- Rome England -- Hadrian's Wall Forum romain (Rome, Italie) Hadrian (Römisches Reich, Kaiser) Hadrian,, Emperor of Rome Hadrian's Wall (England) Hadrien,, empereur romain History Italy -- Rome Roman Forum (Rome, Italy) Rome -- Histoire -- 117-138 (Hadrien) Rome -- History -- Hadrian, 117-138 Rome (Empire)