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Hadrian (AD 76-138), Roman Emperor, 117 - 138, born in Italica (mod ern Santiponce) in Hisania Baetica (modern Spain),
He had a distinguished military career before succeeding Trajan as emperor (117 A.D.), after which he began his famous travels throughout the empire. He visited Britain (122), when he built the wall from the Tyne to the Solway, which is known by his name.
In this last year Trajan fell ill and set out for home, leaving Hadrian as commander of the army and governor of Syria. Hadrian was at Antioch when he learned of his adoption by Trajan and two days later of the emperor's death. His succession was confirmed by the army and the Senate.
Hadrian was a remarkably competent administrator, instituting many notable reforms in the provinces and Italy itself, besides being a cultured patron of art, literature, and architecture. He twice visited Athens, where he completed the Olympium and dedicated many new buildings.
He devoted much of his reign to travelling about the empire. He established strong central rule from Rome and strengthened the unity of his territories.
On the first of his great journeys (121-26), he visited Gaul, Germany, Britain, Spain, Mauretania, Asia Minor, the Aegean Islands, Athens and Sicily.
He fortified parts of the frontier and built the stone wall in northern Briain which is known as Hadrian's Wall.
While he was in Egypt, his beautiful favourite, the youth Antinous, was drowned at Besa on the Nile. Hadrian was so distraught that he enrolled the youth among the gods, built temples to him throughout the empire and founded the city of Antinobpolis in Egypt.
In 134, he returned to Rome and spent the remainder of his life at his beautiful villa in Tivoli.
He died at Baiae, and was succeeded by his adopted son Antoninus Pius.
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He had a distinguished military career before succeeding Trajan as emperor (117 A.D.), after which he began his famous travels throughout the empire. He visited Britain (122), when he built the wall from the Tyne to the Solway, which is known by his name.
In this last year Trajan fell ill and set out for home, leaving Hadrian as commander of the army and governor of Syria. Hadrian was at Antioch when he learned of his adoption by Trajan and two days later of the emperor's death. His succession was confirmed by the army and the Senate.
Hadrian was a remarkably competent administrator, instituting many notable reforms in the provinces and Italy itself, besides being a cultured patron of art, literature, and architecture. He twice visited Athens, where he completed the Olympium and dedicated many new buildings.
He devoted much of his reign to travelling about the empire. He established strong central rule from Rome and strengthened the unity of his territories.
On the first of his great journeys (121-26), he visited Gaul, Germany, Britain, Spain, Mauretania, Asia Minor, the Aegean Islands, Athens and Sicily.
He fortified parts of the frontier and built the stone wall in northern Briain which is known as Hadrian's Wall.
While he was in Egypt, his beautiful favourite, the youth Antinous, was drowned at Besa on the Nile. Hadrian was so distraught that he enrolled the youth among the gods, built temples to him throughout the empire and founded the city of Antinobpolis in Egypt.
In 134, he returned to Rome and spent the remainder of his life at his beautiful villa in Tivoli.
He died at Baiae, and was succeeded by his adopted son Antoninus Pius.
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