Hadrian: The Restless EmperorHadrian'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. |
Contents
The Emperor Hadrian | 1 |
1 A Childhood in Flavian Rome | 10 |
2 The Old dominion | 21 |
3 Military tribune | 27 |
4 Principatus et libertas | 35 |
5 The young general | 50 |
6 Archon at Athens | 58 |
7 The Parthian war | 66 |
14 A summer in Asia | 162 |
15 A year in Greece | 175 |
16 Pater patriae | 189 |
17 Africa | 203 |
18 Hadrianus Olympius | 215 |
19 Death in the Nile | 235 |
20 Athens and Jerusalem | 259 |
21 The Bitter end | 279 |
8 The new ruler | 77 |
9 Return to Rome | 93 |
10 To the German frontier | 113 |
11 Hadrians Wall | 123 |
12 A New Augustus | 142 |
13 Return to the east | 151 |
Animula vagula blandula | 301 |
Stemma | 308 |
Notes | 311 |
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