King Hadrian

King Hadrian



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by Joshua J. Mark
published on 02 September 2009
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Colossal Marble Head of Hadrian from Sagalassos
Hadrian was Roman emperor from 117 to 138 CE and he is known as the third of the Five Good Emperors (Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius) who ruled justly. Born Publius Aelius Hadrianus, probably in Hispania, Hadrian is best known for his substantial building projects throughout the Roman Empire and, especially, Hadrian's Wall in northern Britain.
As a young man, Hadrian was well educated in his hometown of Italica Hispania (modern day Seville, Spain) and left for Rome around the age of 14. His first military service was as Tribune under Emperor Nerva (r. 96-98 CE). When Nerva died, Trajan ascended to the throne. Emperor Trajan (r. 98-117 CE) was the first Roman ruler of provincial origin. Later biographers would attempt to place the birth of both Trajan and Hadrian in the city of Rome but both were of Hispanic ethnicity and this commonality has been assumed by some to be the reason for Trajan's adoption of Hadrian as his successor (though most scholars dispute this).
Hadrian is commonly depicted in military attire even though his regime is marked by relative peace.
Trajan died on campaign in Cilicia in 117 CE, with Hadrian in command of his rearguard, and is not believed to have named a successor. Trajan's wife, Plotina (who was fond of Hadrian) signed the papers of succession, and it is thought that she, not the emperor, was responsible for Hadrian's adoption as heir. However that may be, it is known that Trajan respected Hadrian and had considered him as his successor even if he did not officially name him as such. Hadrian's service to Trajan is well documented through the various important positions he held prior to becoming emperor of Rome.
His popularity as emperor is attested to by the fact that Hadrian was absent from Rome for the better part of his reign. Earlier Roman rulers, such as Nero, were harshly criticized for spending less time away from the city. Professor D. Brendan Nagle writes:
[Hadrian] spent most of his reign (twelve out of twenty-one years) traveling all over the Empire visiting the provinces, overseeing the administration, and checking the discipline of the army. He was a brilliant administrator who concerned himself with all aspects of government and the administration of justice. (278) 
His devotion to the army was such that he would sleep and eat among the common soldiers, and he is commonly depicted in military attire even though his regime is marked by relative peace.
Hadrian's building projects are perhaps his most enduring legacy. He established cities throughout the Balkan Peninsula, Egypt, Asia Minor, and Greece. His love for Greece and Greek literature was such that he was known as 'Graeculus' (Greekling) in his youth, and his philhellenism did not dissipate with age. He visited Greece at least twice (probably more) and participated in the Eleusinian Mysteries, of which he was an initiate. The Arch of Hadrian, constructed by the citizens of Athens in 131/132 CE, honor Hadrian as the founder of the city. Inscriptions on the arch name Theseus (the traditional founder) but add Hadrian owing to the latter's substantial contributions to Athens (such as the Temple of Zeus). 
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He dedicated a number of sites in Greece to his young lover Antinous, who drowned in the Nile River in 130 CE. Hadrian was deeply attached to Antinous and the young man's death so greatly affected the emperor that he had him deified (from which the mystery cult in honor of Antinous grew). In Egypt, he founded the city of Antinopolis in his memory. In Rome, he rebuilt the Pantheon (which had been destroyed by fire) and Trajan's Forum as well as funding construction of other buildings, baths, and villas. Many of these structures survived intact for centuries, some as late as the 19th century CE, and the Pantheon, still perfectly preserved, may be visited in the present day. Hadrian had a great interest in architecture and seems to have contributed ideas or even plans to the architects, though scholars no longer believe that he was the lead architect on any single project.
Of all his significant monuments and buildings, Hadrian's Wall in northern Britain is the most famous. Construction of the wall, known in antiquity as Vallum Hadriani, was begun around 122 CE and corresponded to Hadrian's visit to the province. It marked the northern boundary of the Roman Empire in Britain, but the length and breadth of the project (stretching, as it did, from coast to coast) suggests that the more important purpose of the wall was a show of Rome's power. The wall was originally 9.7 feet wide (3 m) and 16-20 feet high (c. 6 m) east of the River Irthing, all built of stone, and 20 feet wide (6 m) by 11 feet high (3.5 m) west of the river, made up of stone and turf, stretching 73 miles (120 km) across uneven terrain.
It was built in six years by the legions stationed in Britain. There were between 14-17 fortifications along the length of the wall and a vallum (a ditch purposefully constructed of earthworks) which ran parallel to the wall. The Vallum measured 20 feet (6 m) wide by 10 feet (3 m) deep, flanked by large mounds of tightly packed earth. As Hadrian's foreign policy was 'peace through strength', it is thought that the wall, which was originally plastered and whitewashed, would have clearly represented the might of the Roman Empire.
Although Hadrian was a learned and cultivated man, his policy of peaceful relations and negotiations was not always adhered to. In 130 CE, Hadrian visited Jerusalem, which was still in ruins from the First Roman-Jewish War of 66-73 CE. He rebuilt the city according to his own designs and renamed it Aelia Capitolina Jupiter Capitolinus after himself and the king of the Roman gods. When he built a temple to Jupiter on the ruins of the Temple of Solomon (the so-called Second Temple, considered sacred by the Jews), the populace rose up under the leadership of Simon bar Kochba (also given as Shimon Bar-Cochba, Bar Kokhbah, Ben-Cozba, Cosiba or Coziba) in what has come to be known as the Bar-Kochba Revolt (132-136 CE). Roman losses in this campaign were enormous but Jewish losses were no less significant. By the time the rebellion was put down, 580,000 Jews had been killed and over 1000 towns and villages destroyed. Hadrian then banished the remaining Jews from the region and renamed it Syria Palaestina after the traditional enemies of the Jewish people, the Philistines. He ordered a public burning of the Torah, executed the Jewish scholars, and prohibited the practice and observance of Judaism.
His health now failing, Hadrian returned to Rome and occupied himself by writing poetry and tending to administrative affairs. He named as his successor Antoninus Pius (r. 138-161 CE) on the stipulation that Antoninus would adopt the young Marcus Aurelius (r. 161-180 CE) to follow. Hadrian died in 138 CE, presumably of a heart attack, at the age of 62. He was buried first at Puteoli, on the grounds of the former estate of the rhetorician Cicero (as homage to Hadrian's love of learning), but when Antoninus Pius completed the great Tomb of Hadrian in Rome the following year, his body was cremated and the ashes interred there with his wife and son. Antoninus Pius had Hadrian deified and temples built in his honor. The historian Gibbon writes:
[Hadrian's rule was] the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous…when the vast extent of the Roman Empire was governed by absolute power under the guidance of virtue and wisdom. (61)
Although Hadrian was not universally admired during his life, or since his death, his reign is generally considered in keeping with Gibbon's estimation.
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A freelance writer and former part-time Professor of Philosophy at Marist College, New York, Joshua J. Mark has lived in Greece and Germany and traveled through Egypt. He has taught history, writing, literature, and philosophy at the college level.
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This article is about the Roman emperor. For other uses, see Hadrian (disambiguation).
Publius Aelius Hadrianus
24 January 76
Italica, Hispania (most likely) or Rome, Italia
Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus[1]
Hadrian (/ˈheɪdriən/; Latin: Cae­sar Tra­ia­nus Hadrianus [ˈkae̯s̠ar t̪rajˈjaːnʊs̠ (h)a.d̪riˈjaːnʊs̠]; 24 Jan­u­ary 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman em­peror from 117 to 138. He was born into a Roman Italo-His­panic fam­ily that set­tled in Spain from the Ital­ian city of Atri in Pi­cenum. His fa­ther was of sen­a­to­r­ial rank and was a first cousin of Em­peror Tra­jan. He mar­ried Tra­jan's grand-niece Vibia Sabina early in his ca­reer, be­fore Tra­jan be­came em­peror and pos­si­bly at the be­hest of Tra­jan's wife Pom­peia Plotina. Plotina and Tra­jan's close friend and ad­viser Lu­cius Licinius Sura were well dis­posed to­wards Hadrian. When Tra­jan died, his widow claimed that he had nom­i­nated Hadrian as em­peror im­me­di­ately be­fore his death.
Rome's mil­i­tary and Sen­ate ap­proved Hadrian's suc­ces­sion, but four lead­ing sen­a­tors were un­law­fully put to death soon after. They had op­posed Hadrian or seemed to threaten his suc­ces­sion, and the Sen­ate held him re­spon­si­ble for it and never for­gave him. He earned fur­ther dis­ap­proval among the elite by aban­don­ing Tra­jan's ex­pan­sion­ist poli­cies and ter­ri­to­r­ial gains in Mesopotamia, As­syria, Ar­me­nia, and parts of Dacia. Hadrian pre­ferred to in­vest in the de­vel­op­ment of sta­ble, de­fen­si­ble bor­ders and the uni­fi­ca­tion of the em­pire's dis­parate peo­ples. He is known for build­ing Hadrian's Wall, which marked the north­ern limit of Bri­tan­nia.
Hadrian en­er­get­i­cally pur­sued his own Im­pe­r­ial ideals and per­sonal in­ter­ests. He vis­ited al­most every province of the Em­pire, ac­com­pa­nied by an Im­pe­r­ial ret­inue of spe­cial­ists and ad­min­is­tra­tors. He en­cour­aged mil­i­tary pre­pared­ness and dis­ci­pline, and he fos­tered, de­signed, or per­son­ally sub­sidised var­i­ous civil and re­li­gious in­sti­tu­tions and build­ing pro­jects. In Rome it­self, he re­built the Pan­theon and con­structed the vast Tem­ple of Venus and Roma. In Egypt, he may have re­built the Ser­apeum of Alexan­dria. He was an ar­dent ad­mirer of Greece and sought to make Athens the cul­tural cap­i­tal of the Em­pire, so he or­dered the con­struc­tion of many op­u­lent tem­ples there. His in­tense re­la­tion­ship with Greek youth An­ti­nous and the lat­ter's un­timely death led Hadrian to es­tab­lish a wide­spread cult late in his reign. He sup­pressed the Bar Kokhba re­volt in Ju­daea, but his reign was oth­er­wise peace­ful.
Hadrian's last years were marred by chronic ill­ness. He saw the Bar Kokhba re­volt as the fail­ure of his pan­hel­lenic ideal. He ex­e­cuted two more sen­a­tors for their al­leged plots against him, and this pro­voked fur­ther re­sent­ment. 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. Hadrian died the same year at Baiae, and An­ton­i­nus had him de­i­fied, de­spite op­po­si­tion from the Sen­ate. Ed­ward Gib­bon in­cludes him among the Em­pire's "Five Good Em­per­ors", a "benev­o­lent dic­ta­tor"; Hadrian's own Sen­ate found him re­mote and au­thor­i­tar­ian. 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.[2]
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Hadrian was born on 24 Jan­u­ary 76, prob­a­bly in Ital­ica (near mod­ern Seville) in the Roman province of His­pania Baet­ica; one Roman bi­og­ra­pher claims he was born at Rome.[3][4][5] He was named Pub­lius Aelius Hadri­anus. His fa­ther was Pub­lius Aelius Hadri­anus Afer, a sen­a­tor of prae­to­rian rank, born and raised in Ital­ica but pa­ter­nally linked, through many gen­er­a­tions over sev­eral cen­turies, to a fam­ily from Hadria (mod­ern Atri), an an­cient town in Pi­cenum. The fam­ily had set­tled in Ital­ica soon after its found­ing by Sci­pio Africanus. Hadrian's mother was Domi­tia Paulina, daugh­ter of a dis­tin­guished His­pano-Ro­man sen­a­to­r­ial fam­ily from Gades (Cádiz).[6] His only sib­ling was an elder sis­ter, Aelia Domi­tia Paulina. His wet-nurse was a slave Ger­mana, prob­a­bly of Ger­manic ori­gin, to whom he was de­voted through­out his life. She was later freed by him and ul­ti­mately out­lived him, as shown by her fu­ner­ary in­scrip­tion, which was found at Hadrian's villa at Tivoli.[7][8][9] Hadrian's great-nephew, Gnaeus Peda­nius Fus­cus Sali­na­tor, from Bar­cino (Barcelona) would be­come Hadrian's col­league as co-con­sul in 118. As a sen­a­tor, Hadrian's fa­ther would have spent much of his time in Rome.[10] 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. Hadrian and Tra­jan were both con­sid­ered to be – in the words of Au­re­lius Vic­tor – "aliens", peo­ple "from the out­side" (ad­ve­nae).[11]
Hadrian's par­ents died in 86, when he was ten years old. He and his sis­ter be­came wards of Tra­jan and Pub­lius Acil­ius At­tianus (who later be­came Tra­jan's Prae­to­rian pre­fect).[6] Hadrian was phys­i­cally ac­tive, and en­joyed hunt­ing; when he was 14, Tra­jan called him to Rome and arranged his fur­ther ed­u­ca­tion in sub­jects ap­pro­pri­ate to a young Roman aris­to­crat.[12] Hadrian's en­thu­si­asm for Greek lit­er­a­ture and cul­ture earned him the nick­name Graecu­lus ("Greek­ling").[13]
Hadrian's first of­fi­cial post in Rome was as a mem­ber of the de­cemviri stl­itibus ju­di­can­dis, one among many vig­in­tivi­rate of­fices at the low­est level of the cur­sus hon­o­rum ("course of ho­n­ours") that could lead to higher of­fice and a sen­a­to­r­ial ca­reer. He then served as a mil­i­tary tri­bune, first with the Legio II Adi­utrix in 95, then with the Legio V Mace­donica. Dur­ing Hadrian's sec­ond stint as tri­bune, the frail and aged reign­ing em­peror Nerva adopted Tra­jan as his heir; Hadrian was dis­patched to give Tra­jan the news— or most prob­a­bly was one of many emis­saries charged with this same commission.[14] Then Hadrian was trans­ferred to Legio XXII Prim­i­ge­nia and a third tribunate.[15] Hadrian's three tri­bunates gave him some ca­reer ad­van­tag
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