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.<BR>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.<BR>No comprehensive account of Hadrian''s life and reign has been attempted for over seventy years. In <EM>Hadrian: The Restless Emperor</EM>, Anthony Birley brings together the new evidence from inscriptions and papyri, and up-to-date and in-de
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Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher-emperor who ruled the Roman Empire between AD 161 and 180, is one of the best recorded individuals from antiquity. Even his face became more than usually familiar: the imperial coinage displayed his portrait for over 40...
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In this, the only biography of Septimius Severus in English, Anthony R. Birley explors how ''Roman'' or otherwise this man was and examines his remarkable background and career.<BR>Severus was descended from Phoenician settlers...
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The ink writing-tablets, first indentified at Roman Vindolanda, just south of Hadrian''s Wall, in 1973, revealed a hitherto unknown papyrus-substitute, thin leaves of wood for day-to-day book-keeping and letters. Dating mostly from the years...
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Since it opened in 2003 Hadrian' s Wall Path has become one of Britain' s most popular long-distance paths.
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