ROMAN EMPEROR HADRIAN

HADRIAN’S WALL ( VALLUM AELIUM ),

117 KM, WAS A DEFENSIVE
FORTIFICATION IN ROMAN BRITAIN,
BEGUN IN ID122 DURING THE RULE OF
EMPEROR HADRIAN. IN ADDITION TO
HIS MILITARY ROLE, GATES THROUGH
THE WALL SERVED AS CUSTOMS POSTS.
INSCRIPTION ATTESTS THIS COHORT I
DACIAN BIRDOSWALD FORT IN
CUMBRIA, ENGLAND AT HADRIAN’S
WALL.
TEXT IN STONE IS FRAMED BY PALM
BRANCH AS SYMBOL OF VICTORY AND
THE DACIAN CURVED SWORD, FALX,
WHICH WERE ARMED SOLDIERS CAME
FROM THE CARPATHIAN COHORT.
CURRENCY ( DUPONDIUS ) BRASS
ISSUED BY TRAJAN IN 105 AD.
THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT
ACHIEVEMENTS OF DACIA BY THE
ROMANS, DEPICTING THE REVERSE
BRIDGE OF THE DANUBE APOLLODORUS
OF DAMASCUS.
CURRENCY ( SESTERTIUS ) BRONZE
ISSUED BY HADRIAN IN 127 AD.
AVERS LAUREATE BUST DEPICTS THE
EMPERROR, THE REVERS IS EMBODIED
IN ROME POSTURE WARRIOR GODDESS
HOLDING IN ONE HAND THE GODDESS
VICTORIA, AND IN THE OTHER
CORNUCOPIA.
CUPER ( AS ) COINS ISSUED BY HADRIAN
IN ABOUT 130 AD.
ON THE REVERSE IS DEPICTED DACIA IN
THE FACE OF A GODDESS WHO HAS
TARABOSTES DACIAN CAPS.
MAUSOLEUM OF HADRIAN IN ROME

MAUSOLEUM DESIGNED BY HARDIAN

HIMSELF, IS ON THE RIGHT BANK OF
THE TIBER. DURING THE MIDDLE AGES
IT WAS USED BY THE POPES AS A
FORTRESS, SO IT IS KNOWN AS
CASTELLO SANT’ANGELO.
 THE MODEL RESTORATION OF THE
MAUSOLEUM OF HADRIAN.
ITALIAN POSTCARD, EARLY TWENTIETH
CENTURY.
AGRIPPA’S PANTHEON IN ROME
MARCUS VIPSANIUS AGRIPPA WAS A
ROMAN STATESMAN, GENERAL AND
ARCHITECT. HE WAS A CLOSE FRIEND,
SON-IN-LAW AND LIEUTENANT TO
AUGUSTUS EMPEROR AND WAS
RESPONSABILE FOR THE
CONSTRUCTION OF SOME OF THE MOST
BEAUTIFUL BUILDINGS IN THE HISTORY
OF ROME AND FOR IMPORTANT
MILITARY VICTORIES, MOST NOTABLY
AT THE BATTLE OF ACTIUM AGAINST
THE FORCES OF MARK ANTHONY AND
CLEOPATRA.
PANTHEON WAS ENTIRELY REBUILT
DURING EMPEROR HADRIAN.
 HADRIAN’S VILLA

THE HADRIAN’S VILLA IS A LARGE

ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL COMPLEX
AT TIVOLI, ITALY. THE VILLA WAS
CONSTRUCTED AT TIBUR ( MODERN DAY
TIVOLI) AS A RETREAT FROM ROME FOR
ROMAN EMPEROR HADRIAN DURING
THE SECOND AND THIRD DECADES OF
THE 2ND CENTURY AD.
HADRIAN WAS SAID TO DISLIKE THE
PALACE ON THE PALATINE HILL IN
ROME, LEADING TO THE
CONSTRUCTION OF THE RETREAT.
DURING THE LATER YEARS OF HIS
REIGN, HE ACTUALLY GUVERNED THE
EMPIRE FROM THE VILLA. A LARGE
COURT THEREFORE LIVED THERE
PERMANENTLY.
THE POSTAL SERVICE KEPT IN CONTACT
WITH ROME, 29KM AWAY.
AFTER HADRIAN, THE VILLA WAS USED
BY HIS VARIOUS SUCCESSORS.