Emperor Hadrianus

[Aether]

Well, The university of Leuven (Belgium) just recovered pieces of a statue from Emperor Hadrianus in The Turkisch country of Sagalassos, they found a foot about 0.80meters big a leg about 0.70 meters and a well preserved head. One of the most finest portrets of the emperor. The pieces where found in a bathcomplex.

Can anyone tell me a bit about this emperor?

[LeonidasOfSparta]

WELL I DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HIM , BUT I THINK HE WAS ROMAN AND BUILT FAMOUS HADRIANS WALL AT ENGLAND...

SORRY IF I'M MISTAKEN

REGARDS
LEONIDAS OF SPARTA

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[Idwayreth]

one of the "5 good emperors", ruled during the height of the empire, built the famous wall in britain.

[hellheaven1987]

Emperor Hadrian, one of "the five Good Emperors", successed after Emperor Trajan died. The most important contribution of Emperor Hardrian is probably the consolidation of Rome Empire, since he spent most of his time visiting all frontier, built up defence and reorganized Imperial Army. Under his rule, the Empire managed to build up a strong defence in all frontiers, which would increase Rome Empire's life in the next few centuries.

By the way, he also ended Trajan's Persian expedition and considered about given up the new province of Dacia, which he did not for some reasons.

[Delvecchio1975]

a very good description of this brilliant emperor:

http://www.roman-emperors.org/hadrian.htm

[MaximiIian]

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Can anyone tell me a bit about this emperor?

Like everyone else said, built the Hadrian's Wall, which forms the true border between England and Scotland.
Greatly improved the Empire's organizational structure.

To everyone else:
I can't remember- was he the Emperor right before Richard Harris?

[Kiljan Arslan]

Wasn't he the one who almost destroyed the Jews?

[Marie Louise von Preussen]

Hadrian ruled after Trajan, the Conqueror of Dacia. He was the first Emperor to actively take a defensive stance for the Empire, after Trajan expanded it well beyond its real capacity to defend itself. Fact is, Hadrian's time was already a time of decline: the denarius was slowly losing value, the slave-based economy was beginning to erode as the rate of great conquests was decreasing and citizenship was slowly expanding.

It was during Hadrian's (or Trajan's) time that Juvenal wrote his famous satires, coining the word "panes et circences" (bread and circuses) for the first time. This is to show that the mob was slowly losing her freedom and her interests in anything besides games and games. Most of the unemployed Plebeian class relied upon the grain dole to survive and not rebel, and that, along with the army, drained a vast amount of funds from the State.

Hadrian also created a network of agents, the Frumentarii, who would investigate people all around the Empire. It was useful for keeping a track of the loyalty and competence of the governors. The Frumentarii were initially succesful thanks to their common profession: they distributed grain, and so were well able to catch the latest gossip and detect anything strange among the common people. Later on, they became so hated that they were abolished more or less at the same time than the Praetorian Guards.

Hadrian had also a male lover, called Antinous, who drowned in Egypt. He is reported to have cried for days, and the Romans at that time made several statues of Antinous, perhaps one of the most well portrayed figures in Ancient History.

[LeonidasOfSparta]

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LEONIDAS