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Hadrian

Roman emperor
Also known as: Adrian, Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, Publius Aelius Hadrianus(Show More)
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G.W. Bowersock
Professor of Ancient History, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. Author of Greek Sophists in the Roman Empire and others.
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Hadrian (born January 24, 76 ce—died July 10, 138, Baiae [Baia], near Naples [Italy]) was a Roman emperor (117–138 ce), the emperor Trajan’s cousin and successor, who was a cultivated admirer of Greek civilization and who unified and consolidated Rome’s vast empire. He was the third of the so-called Five Good Emperors. Hadrian’s Roman forebears left Picenum in Italy for southern Spain about 250 years before his birth. His father was from Italica, Baetica (modern...

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