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Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome

By Anthony Everitt

By Anthony Everitt

By Anthony Everitt

By Anthony Everitt

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Sep 14, 2010 | ISBN 9780812978148

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    About Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome

    “A fascinating insight into the mind of the Roman emperor.”—Sunday Telegraph (London)

    Born in A.D. 76, Hadrian lived through and ruled during a tempestuous era, a time when the Colosseum was opened to the public and Pompeii was buried under a mountain of lava and ash. Acclaimed author Anthony Everitt vividly recounts Hadrian’s thrilling life, in which the emperor brings a century of disorder and costly warfare to a peaceful conclusion while demonstrating how a monarchy can be compatible with good governance.

    What distinguished Hadrian’s rule, according to Everitt, were two insights that inevitably ensured the empire’s long and prosperous future: He ended Rome’s territorial expansion, which had become strategically and economically untenable, by fortifying her boundaries (the many famed Walls of Hadrian), and he effectively “Hellenized” Rome by anointing Athens the empire’s cultural center, thereby making Greek learning and art vastly more prominent in Roman life.

    By making splendid use of recently discovered archaeological materials and his own exhaustive research, Everitt sheds new light on one of the most important figures of the ancient world.

    About Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome

    “A fascinating insight into the mind of the Roman emperor.”—Sunday Telegraph (London)

    Born in A.D. 76, Hadrian lived through and ruled during a tempestuous era, a time when the Colosseum was opened to the public and Pompeii was buried under a mountain of lava and ash. Acclaimed author Anthony Everitt vividly recounts Hadrian’s thrilling life, in which the emperor brings a century of disorder and costly warfare to a peaceful conclusion while demonstrating how a monarchy can be compatible with good governance.

    What distinguished Hadrian’s rule, according to Everitt, were two insights that inevitably ensured the empire’s long and prosperous future: He ended Rome’s territorial expansion, which had become strategically and economically untenable, by fortifying her boundaries (the many famed Walls of Hadrian), and he effectively “Hellenized” Rome by anointing Athens the empire’s cultural center, thereby making Greek learning and art vastly more prominent in Roman life.

    By making splendid use of recently discovered archaeological materials and his own exhaustive research, Everitt sheds new light on one of the most important figures of the ancient world.

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    About Anthony Everitt

    Anthony Everitt, a former visiting professor in the visual and performing arts at Nottingham Trent University, who has written extensively on European culture, is the author of Cicero, Augustus, Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome, The Rise of Rome, and… More about Anthony Everitt

    About Anthony Everitt

    Anthony Everitt, a former visiting professor in the visual and performing arts at Nottingham Trent University, who has written extensively on European culture, is the author of Cicero, Augustus, Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome, The Rise of Rome, and… More about Anthony Everitt

    Product Details

    Category: Biography & Memoir | Ancient World History

    Paperback | $20.00
    Published by Random House Trade Paperbacks
    Sep 14, 2010 | 448 Pages | 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 | ISBN 9780812978148

    Category: Biography & Memoir | Ancient World History

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Random House
    Sep 01, 2009 | 432 Pages | ISBN 9781588368966

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    Praise

    “A fascinating insight into the mind of the Roman emperor.”—Sunday Telegraph (London)

    “Excellent . . . highly recommended . . . a skillfully analyzed and well-researched narrative.”—Library Journal
     
    “One gets a clear and compelling sense of Hadrian’s times.”—The New Yorker
     
    “[A] skillful portrait . . . The author of biographies of Augustus and Cicero, British scholar Everitt now combines academic expertise with lively prose in a satisfying account of the emperor.”—Publishers Weekly

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