Hadrian The Restless Emperor - $60 (14th & Main)

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Birley, Anthony R. Hadrian: The Restless Emperor. London: Routledge, 1997. ISBN: 041516544X. First edition. Octavo, cloth, spine with sllver lettering, xviii, 399 p. ; ill., maps, 24 cm. SYNOPSIS: 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 Hellenise the Jews, including the outlawing of circumcision, had disastrous consequences leading to the Jewish uprisng under Bar Kochba, and his Greek love of the beautiful Bithynian boy Antinous ended in tragedy. Hadrian's reign (AD 117-138) was a watershed in the history of the Roman Empire. Under his predecessor, Trajan, the highest point of expansion was reached. Hadrian abandoned 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. He also travelled extensively, visiting almost every part of his empire on provincial tours, two of which lasted longer than four years each. No comprehensive account of Hadrian's life and reign has been attempted for over seventy years. In Hadrian: The Restless Emperor, Anthony Birley brings together the new evidence form inscriptions and papyri, and up to date and in-depth examination of the work of other scholars on aspects of Hadrian's reign and policies such as the Jewish war, the coinage, Hadrian's building programme in Rome, Athens and Tivoli, and his relationship with his favourite, Antinous, to provide a thorough and fascinating account of a man who, though hated when he died, left and indelible mark on the Roman empire. Minor wrinkle to top of spine, else fine in fine dustjacket. $60.00.

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