[280] The veiled antagonism between Hadrian and the Senate never grew to overt confrontation as had happened during the reigns of overtly "bad" emperors because Hadrian knew how to remain aloof and avoid an open clash. But however this may be, the Greeks deified him at Hadrian's request, and declared that oracles were given through his agency, but these, it is commonly asserted, were composed by Hadrian himself. [121], Hadrian fell ill around this time; whatever the nature of his illness, it did not stop him from setting off in the spring of 128 to visit Africa. [99] Birley describes this kind of investment as "characteristic of Hadrian"[100], When Hadrian arrived on the Euphrates, he personally negotiated a settlement with the Parthian King Osroes I, inspected the Roman defences, then set off westwards, along the Black Sea coast. [96] Hadrian spent the winter of 122/123 at Tarraco, in Spain, where he restored the Temple of Augustus. [98] The visit was cut short by reports of war preparations by Parthia; Hadrian quickly headed eastwards. This had a short life of about 20 years before being abandoned in favour of a . [175] It has also been speculated that his adoption was Hadrian's belated attempt to reconcile with one of the most important of the four senatorial families whose leading members had been executed soon after Hadrian's succession. Early Life At the age of 10, young Hadrian was caught in grief when his parents passed away in 86 CE. In the eastern provinces, and to some extent in the west, Nero had enjoyed popular support; claims of his imminent return or rebirth emerged almost immediately after his death. His marriage to Vibia Sabina had been unhappy and childless; he adopted Antoninus Pius in 138 and nominated him as a successor on the condition that Antoninus adopt Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus as his own heirs. He refused to intervene in a local dispute between producers of olive oil and the Athenian Assembly and Council, who had imposed production quotas on oil producers;[108] yet he granted an imperial subsidy for the Athenian grain supply. [87] Coin legends of 119120 attest that Quintus Pompeius Falco was sent to restore order. [25][26][27] The exact terms of the peace treaty are not known. [8][9][10] Hadrian's great-nephew, Gnaeus Pedanius Fuscus Salinator, from Barcino (Barcelona) would become Hadrian's colleague as co-consul in 118. Antinous and Hadrian may have already been lovers at this time; Hadrian showed particular generosity to Mantinea, which shared ancient, mythic, politically useful links with Antinous' home at Bithynia. [117][118], During his tour of the Peloponnese, Hadrian persuaded the Spartan grandee Eurycles Herculanus leader of the Euryclid family that had ruled Sparta since Augustus' day to enter the Senate, alongside the Athenian grandee Herodes Atticus the Elder. According to Epiphanius, Hadrian appointed Aquila from Sinope in Pontus as "overseer of the work of building the city", since he was related to him by marriage. He visited almost every province of the Empire, accompanied by an imperial retinue of specialists and administrators. His Hispano-Roman origins and marked pro-Hellenism shifted the focus of the official imperial cult from Rome to the Provinces. Husband of Ulpia Marciana: Levick (2014), p. 161. Rome's military and Senate approved Hadrian's succession, but four leading senators were unlawfully put to death soon after. Hadrian (l. 78-138 CE) was emperor of Rome (r. 117-138 CE) and is recognized as the third of the Five Good Emperors ( Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius) who ruled justly. [216], A great number of Roman citizens maintained a precarious social and economic advantage at the lower end of the hierarchy. Hadrian (/hedrin/; Latin: Caesar Trajanus Hadrianus [kaesar trajjans (h)adrijans]; 24 January 76 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138. Husband of Ceionia Fabia: Levick (2014), p. 164. Cizek, Eugen. [279] Hadrian underscored the autocratic character of his reign by counting his dies imperii from the day of his acclamation by the armies rather than the senate and legislating by frequent use of imperial decrees to bypass the need for the Senate's approval. [63] Hadrian's greatest rivals were Trajan's closest friends, the most experienced and senior members of the imperial council;[64] any of them might have been a legitimate competitor for the imperial office (capaces imperii);[65] and any of them might have supported Trajan's expansionist policies, which Hadrian intended to change. [243] Local coins with his effigy were still being struck during Caracalla's reign, and he was invoked in a poem to celebrate the accession of Diocletian. [238], Hadrian was criticised for the open intensity of his grief at Antinous's death, particularly as he had delayed the apotheosis of his own sister Paulina after her death. [7] His only sibling was an elder sister, Aelia Domitia Paulina. His adoption of Aelius Caesar proved unpopular, not least with Hadrian's brother-in-law Lucius Julius Ursus Servianus and Servianus's grandson Gnaeus Pedanius Fuscus Salinator. [83] All this did not go well with Roman traditionalists. In October 130, as they were part of a flotilla going along the Nile, Antinous died amid mysterious circumstances. [11] In terms of his later career, Hadrian's most significant family connection was to Trajan, his father's first cousin, who was also of senatorial stock, and had been born and raised in Italica. [113], During that winter, Hadrian toured the Peloponnese. [200] Arrian kept Hadrian well-informed on matters related to the Black Sea and the Caucasus. He was probably Hadrian's chief rival for the throne; a senator of the highest rank, breeding, and connections; according to the Historia Augusta, Hadrian had considered making Nigrinus his heir apparent before deciding to get rid of him. [34] Trajan got as far as the coastal city of Selinus, in Cilicia, and died there on 8 August; he would be regarded as one of Rome's most admired, popular and best emperors. [89] A general desire to cease the Empire's extension may have been the determining motive. The fortified site was occupied from around 72 A.D. to the fifth . [140] The German sociologist Georg Simmel remarked that the Panhellenion was based on "games, commemorations, preservation of an ideal, an entirely non-political Hellenism". Antoninus . "L'hrdit dynastique chez les Antonins". [219] Hadrian also forbade torture of free defendants and witnesses. Hadrian's Villa at Tibur (Tivoli) provides the greatest Roman equivalent of an Alexandrian garden, complete with domed Serapeum, recreating a sacred landscape. [162] An unknown proportion of the population was enslaved. In Rome, eight reliefs featuring Hadrian in different stages of hunting decorate a building that began as a monument celebrating a kill. Most of the emperors after Hadrian would be portrayed with beards. [91] A shrine was erected in York to Britannia as the divine personification of Britain; coins were struck, bearing her image, identified as Britania. Hadrian energetically pursued his own imperial ideals and personal interests. This new fashion lasted until the reign of Constantine the Great and was revived again by Phocas at the start of the 7th century . Most scions of the older senatorial families might serve one, or at most two, military tribunates as a prerequisite to higher office. Mark Cartwright (CC BY-NC-SA) Hadrian 11 Aug 117 CE - 10 Jul 138 CE. The Athenian inscription confirms and expands the one in. Low-ranking persons alii ("the others"), including low-ranking citizens were humiliores who for the same offences could be subject to extreme physical punishments, including forced labour in the mines or in public works, as a form of fixed-term servitude. Edward Gibbon includes him among the Empire's "Five Good Emperors", a "benevolent dictator"; Hadrian's own Senate found him remote and authoritarian. He was cremated and his ashes were buried in a mausoleum he designed, now known as the Castel Sant'Angelo. [185][186] Hadrian was given a temple on the Campus Martius, ornamented with reliefs representing the provinces. [185] At the same time, perhaps in reflection of the senate's ill will towards Hadrian, commemorative coinage honouring his deification was kept to a minimum.[188]. He suppressed the Bar Kokhba revolt in Judaea. They only cover about 60 years of Roman history. In Rome, he built the Pantheon, Castel Sant'Angelo (originally Hadrian's Tomb) and the Temple of Venus and Roma. [93] At around this time, Hadrian dismissed his secretary ab epistulis,[94] the biographer Suetonius, for "excessive familiarity" towards the empress. Prior to Hadrian's arrival in Britannia, the province had suffered a major rebellion from 119 to 121. Marble portrait of the emperor Antoninus Pius. "Wytse Keulen, Eloquence rules: the ambiguous image of Hadrian in Fronto's correspondence". Examples in the Roman Province of Thrace include monumental developments to the Stadium and Odeon of Philippopolis (present-day Plovdiv), the provincial capital,[248][249] and his rebuilding and enlargement of the city of Uskudama, which he renamed Hadrianopolis, and is now known as Edirne. [97], In 123, Hadrian crossed the Mediterranean to Mauretania, where he personally led a minor campaign against local rebels. Suetonius a possible lover of Sabina: One interpretation of, Lover of Hadrian: Lambert (1984), p. 99 and. Cortes Copete Juan Manuel. [124] Hadrian returned to Italy in the summer of 128, but his stay was brief, as he set off on another tour that would last three years. [217] However, he limited the punishments that slaves could suffer; they could be lawfully tortured to provide evidence, but they could not be lawfully killed unless guilty of a capital offence. [69][70], Soon after, in 125, Hadrian appointed Quintus Marcius Turbo as his Praetorian Prefect. His intense relationship with Greek youth Antinous and the latter's untimely death led Hadrian to establish a widespread cult late in his reign. Of all his significant monuments and buildings, Hadrian's Wall in northern . [171] In keeping with well-established imperial propriety, Sabina who had been made an Augusta sometime around 128[172] was deified not long after her death. [178][179] It may not have been Hadrian, but rather Antoninus Pius Annius Verus's uncle who supported Annius Verus' advancement; the latter's divorce of Ceionia Fabia and subsequent marriage to Antoninus' daughter Annia Faustina points in the same direction. 9, 13 (note 35), 16, published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Past and Present Society. In Hadrian's villa, statues of the Tyrannicides, with a bearded Aristogeiton and a clean-shaven Harmodios, linked his favourite to the classical tradition of Greek love. [247], Hadrian had an abiding and enthusiastic interest in art, architecture and public works. Lost Greek original was probably from the school of Polykleitos of the fourth century BCE. Husband of Rupilia Faustina: Levick (2014), p. 163. [240] Though not a subject of the state-sponsored, official Roman imperial cult, Antinous offered a common focus for the emperor and his subjects, emphasising their sense of community. [103] The actual history of their relationship is mostly unknown. [81], A cosmopolitan, ecumenical intent is evident in coin issues of Hadrian's later reign, showing the emperor "raising up" the personifications of various provinces. Plotina and Trajan's close friend and adviser Lucius Licinius Sura were well disposed towards Hadrian. Marcus Aurelius. It has been suggested that Trajan's young manservant Phaedimus, who died very soon after Trajan, was killed (or killed himself) rather than face awkward questions. Hadrian's death in AD 138 brought a new emperor to power. [286] For M.A. That helped keep the military usefully occupied in times of peace; his wall across Britania was built by ordinary troops. It was evident that Hadrian was a man of action; he loved to hunt. His reign marked the height of the Roman Empire, usually given as c. 117 CE, and provided a firm foundation for his successor. [285], While the balance of ancient literary opinion almost invariably compares Hadrian unfavourably to his predecessor, modern historians have sought to examine his motives, purposes and the consequences of his actions and policies. After that, he headed north, reaching the Fayyum at the beginning of December. [192] Trajan himself may have thought his gains in Mesopotamia indefensible and abandoned them shortly before his death. Since it was long and massive, the Wall was also dedicated to showing the power of Rome. Hadrian's last years were marred by chronic illness. Hadrian found it necessary to clarify that decurions, the usually middle-class, elected local officials responsible for running the ordinary, everyday official business of the provinces, counted as honestiores; so did soldiers, veterans and their families, as far as civil law was concerned; by implication, almost all citizens below those ranks - the vast majority of the Empire's population - counted as humiliores, with low citizen status, high tax obligations and limited rights. Attianus was likely dead, or executed, by the end of Hadrian's reign; see Franoise Des Boscs-Plateaux, Un parti hispanique Rome? The attack was repulsed by Hadrian's governor, the historian Arrian,[199] who subsequently installed a Roman "adviser" in Iberia. [245] In a rescript addressed to the proconsul of Asia, Gaius Minicius Fundanus, and preserved by Justin Martyr, Hadrian laid down that accusers of Christians had to bear the burden of proof for their denunciations[246] or be punished for calumnia (defamation). Upon completion of the Mausoleum of Hadrian in Rome in 139 by his successor Antoninus Pius, his body was cremated. "The Contest of Homer and Hesiod and the ambitions of Hadrian". During his first stay in Greece, before he became emperor, he attended lectures by Epictetus at Nicopolis. The first modern historian to produce a chronological account of Hadrian's life, supplementing the written sources with other epigraphical, numismatic, and archaeological evidence, was the German 19th-century medievalist Ferdinand Gregorovius. [236] The cult of Antinous was to become very popular in the Greek-speaking world and also found support in the West. Birth Year: 121. [126] From Greece, Hadrian proceeded by way of Asia to Egypt, probably conveyed across the Aegean with his entourage by an Ephesian merchant, Lucius Erastus. They had opposed Hadrian or seemed to threaten his succession, and the Senate held him responsible for their deaths and never forgave him. Hadrian's "Hellenic" emotionalism finds a culturally sympathetic echo in the Homeric Achilles' mourning for his friend Patroclus: see discussion in Vout, Caroline. 2945; T.D. [281] That Hadrian spent half of his reign away from Rome in constant travel probably helped to mitigate the worst of this permanently strained relationship. As Pompey was universally acknowledged as responsible for establishing Rome's power in the east, this restoration was probably linked to a need to reaffirm Roman Eastern hegemony following social unrest there during Trajan's late reign. [288], In Hadrian's time, there was already a well-established convention that one could not write a contemporary Roman imperial history for fear of contradicting what the emperors wanted to say, read or hear about themselves. Hadrian also rebuilt the ancient shrines of Abae and Megara, and the Heraion of Argos. Literary and epigraphic sources say nothing of when or where they met; depictions of Antinous show him aged 20 or so, shortly before his death in 130. Hadrian had inherited the conflict with Parthiaa large empire centered in what is now Iranfrom Trajan, his imperial predecessor. 41 (Dec. 1968), pp. [239] Nevertheless, his recreation of the deceased youth as a cult figure found little opposition. The Fab Five Friedrich Schiller called Hadrian "the Empire's first servant". The non-Roman population would have no obligation to participate in Roman religious rituals but were expected to support the Roman imperial order; this is attested in Caesarea, where some Jews served in the Roman army during both the 66 and 132 rebellions. Best Known For: As Emperor of Rome from 161-180, Marcus Aurelius kept the . The reasons for these four executions remain obscure. [133], Hadrian's movements after his journey down the Nile are uncertain. Hadrian (January 24, 76-July 10, 138) was a Roman emperor for 21 years who unified and consolidated Rome's vast empire, unlike his predecessor, who focused on expansion. [158], Given the fragmentary nature of the existing evidence, it is impossible to ascertain an exact date for the beginning of the uprising. [253][254], Hadrian was a passionate hunter from a young age. Giovanni Battista Bazzana, "The Bar Kokhba Revolt and Hadrian's religious policy", IN Marco Rizzi, ed., Cf a project devised earlier by Hellenized Jewish intellectuals such as. He has been described as enigmatic and contradictory, with a capacity for both great personal generosity and extreme cruelty and driven by insatiable curiosity, self-conceit, and ambition. [226] Hadrian may have stopped at Nemausus during his return from Britannia to oversee the completion or foundation of a basilica dedicated to his patroness Plotina. Jason Knig, Katerina Oikonomopoulou, Greg Woolf, eds. They were given jurisdiction over all of Italy, excluding Rome itself, therefore shifting Italian cases from the courts of Rome. Around the time of his quaestorship, in 100 or 101, Hadrian had married Trajan's seventeen- or eighteen-year-old grandniece, Vibia Sabina. [267] It is possible that this autobiography had the form of a series of open letters to Antoninus Pius. Having originally come from Picenum in north-eastern when this part of Spain was opened up to Roman settlement, Hadrian's family had lived in Italica for some three centuries. Nicomedia had been hit by an earthquake only shortly before his stay; Hadrian provided funds for its rebuilding and was acclaimed as restorer of the province. 1649. Now in his mid-thirties, Hadrian travelled to Greece; he was granted Athenian citizenship and was appointed eponymous archon of Athens for a brief time (in 112). It is uncertain whether Rupilia Faustina was Frugi's daughter by Salonia Matidia or another woman. propos d'un aureus au nom d'Hadrien Csar". Coins celebrate him as the restorer of the island. Emperor Hadrian: A Complete Guide to Rome's Traveling Emperor Hadrian is famous as Rome's traveling emperor. This highly cultured, influential woman shared many of Hadrian's values and interests, including the idea of the Roman Empire as a commonwealth with an underlying Hellenic culture. See also Roman Empire and ancient Rome. [132], Hadrian founded the city of Antinopolis in Antinous' honour on 30 October 130. The emperor Antoninus Pius abandoned Hadrian's Wall and moved the frontier up to the Forth-Clyde isthmus, where he built a new wall, 'this time of turf' - the Antonine Wall. After his earlier choice for a successor died, Hadrian adopted Titus Aurelius Antoninus (who would be known as Emperor Pius . [173], Hadrian's marriage to Sabina had been childless. The coin legend runs HADRIANO TRAIANO CAESARI; see Roman, Yves, Rmy, Bernard & Riccardi, Laurent:" Les intrigues de Plotine et la succession de Trajan. This was the Perpetual Edict, according to which the legal actions of praetors became fixed statutes and, as such, could no longer be subjected to personal interpretation or change by any magistrate other than the Emperor. [78], Hadrian was to spend more than half his reign outside Italy. [195] A controlled partial withdrawal of troops from the Dacian plains would have been less costly than maintaining several Roman cavalry units and a supporting network of fortifications. [101] He probably wintered in Nicomedia, the main city of Bithynia. He relieved Judea's governor, the outstanding Moorish general Lusius Quietus, of his personal guard of Moorish auxiliaries;[59][60] AD 117138) and Medicine", "A Contribution To The Archaeology of The Western Desert: IV The Great Serapeum Of Alexandria", "Antinoos, The New God: Origen on Miracle and Belief in Third Century Egypt", https://ancient-stadium-plovdiv.eu/?p=12&l=2, https://lostinplovdiv.com/en/articles/a-photo-walk-through-the-ancient-odeon, "he wore a full beard to cover up the natural blemishes on his face", "Barba NumisWiki, The Collaborative Numismatics Project", Forty-three translations of Hadrian's "Animula, vagula, blandula ", Critical Companion to T. S. Eliot: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work, trans. [234] It was a proper Greek polis; it was granted an imperially subsidised alimentary scheme similar to Trajan's alimenta,[235] and its citizens were allowed intermarriage with members of the native population without loss of citizen status. Their beards, however, were not worn out of an appreciation for Greek culture, but because the beard had, thanks to Hadrian, become fashionable. Valentinian III was a 5th century emperor, 400 years after the height of Pax Romana. [95] Marcius Turbo's colleague as praetorian prefect, Gaius Septicius Clarus, was dismissed for the same alleged reason, perhaps a pretext to remove him from office. [76] Some sources describe Hadrian's occasional recourse to a network of informers, the frumentarii[77] to discreetly investigate persons of high social standing, including senators and his close friends. His exact route is uncertain, but it took in Epidaurus; Pausanias describes temples built there by Hadrian, and his statue in heroic nudity erected by its citizens[114] in thanks to their "restorer". It allowed Hadrian to appear as the fictive heir to Pericles, who supposedly had convened a previous Panhellenic Congress such a Congress is mentioned only in Pericles' biography by Plutarch, who respected Rome's imperial order. He focused on protection from external and internal threats; on "raising" existing provinces rather than the aggressive acquisition of wealth and territory through subjugation of "foreign" peoples that had characterised the early empire. Along with his usual role as benefactor and restorer, he found time to inspect the troops; his speech to them survives. 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