List of Figures Introduction Chronology 1. Death on the Nile 2. Growing up in Rome and Spain 3. Starting out 4. War and peace 5. Rebuilding Rome 6. Hadrian’s Villa – the sunny pleasure dome and the caves of ice 7. Bread and circuses – keeping the people happy 8. The journeys 9. Hadrian and Athens 10. Antinous 11. Christians and Jews 12. The end Bibliography Index
A lively, accessible biography of one of the best known but least understood Roman emperors, exploring his life and legacy.
James Morwood was Head of Classics at Harrow School for seventeen years. He then moved to Oxford University and took charge of the language teaching for the Classics Faculty. He retired from this role in 2003. His books include The Oxford Pocket Latin Dictionary (1994, revised edition 2005); A Latin Grammar (1999), Oxford Grammar of Classical Greek (2001), The Plays of Euripides (Bloomsbury, 2002), The Pocket Oxford Dictionary of Classical Greek (2002), Advanced Latin (Bloomsbury, 2009) and The Oxford Latin Course, College edition (2012).
This very readable, engaging book is an excellent introduction to
the emperor Hadrian ... It is detailed, covering an astonishing
number of aspects of second-century Roman life; it is enlivened by
humour, the author’s personal experience, and modern comparisons.
Most importantly, it provides a well-rounded, enlightening picture
of Hadrian and his world. It is an essential introduction to the
subject and would benefit readers from high-school age to seasoned
academics.
*Classics Ireland*
An excellent and highly readable account of this fascinating
emperor [that] includes enough background for the story to be fully
comprehensible to anyone new to Roman history
*Classics for All Reviews*
This book is beautifully written and richly informative. It offers
readers a good mixture of ancient sources and modern
scholarship.
*Robert Gurval, University of California, USA*
James Morwood's Hadrian is the perfect introduction to this
fascinating and elusive emperor. Morwood has given us a wonderful
panorama of the Roman empire at its zenith, based on complete
mastery of the modern scholarship. Lucid, accessible, and
beautifully written, this book deserves the widest possible
readership.
*Peter Thonemann, Wadham College, Oxford, UK*
Hadrian, "the most remarkable of all the Roman emperors" (as a
famous historian called him a century ago), was regarded as a
strange and baffling figure even by his second century AD
contemporaries. James Morwood has produced a well-written and
coherent introduction, with very up to date bibliography. He steers
his way in sovereign fashion through the fragmentary sources as he
follows Hadrian around the empire and manages to bring him to
life.
*Professor Anthony Birley, Newcastle University, UK*
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