Author: Marguerite Yourcenar
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: hadrian, memoirs
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2005-05-18
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0374529264
ISBN-13: 9780374529260

Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has received international acclaim since its first publication in France in 1951. In it, Marguerite Yourcenar reimagines the Emperor Hadrian’s arduous boyhood, his triumphs and reversals, and finally, as emperor, his gradual reordering of a war-torn world, writing with the imaginative insight of a great writer of the twentieth century while crafting a prose style as elegant and precise as those of the Latin stylists of Hadrian’s own era.

Author: Thorsten Opper
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: conflict, empire, hadrian
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2008-09-15
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0674030958
ISBN-13: 9780674030954

Even in the panoply of Roman history, Hadrian stands out. Emperor from 117 to 138 ad, he was at once a benevolent ruler and a ruthless military leader, known for his restless and ambitious nature, his interest in architecture, and his passion for Greek culture. This book moves beyond the familiar image of Hadrian to offer a new appraisal of this Emperor’s contradictory personality, his exploits and accomplishments, his rule, and his military role, against the backdrop of his twenty-one-year reign. Lavishly illustrated with key works of art and objects, celebrated and little-known sculpt

Author: Nic Fields
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Keywords: fortress, wall, hadrian
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2003-02-19
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1841764302
ISBN-13: 9781841764306

Hadrian’s Wall is the most important monument built by the Romans in Britain. It is the best known frontier in the entire Roman Empire and stands as a reminder of the past glories of one of the world’s greatest civilisations. Its origins lie in a visit by the Emperor Hadrian to Britain in AD 122 when he ordered the wall to be built to mark the northern boundary of his Empire and ’to separate the Romans from the Barbarians’. This title details the design, development and construction of the wall and covers the everyday lives of those who manned it as well as the assaults it

Author: William Dietrich
Publisher: HarperTorch
Keywords: novel, wall, hadrian
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2005-03-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0060563729
ISBN-13: 9780060563721

A fusion of Steven Pressfield’s Gates of Fire and the movie Braveheart; a novel of ancient warfare, lethal politics, and the final great clash of Roman and Celtic culture. For three centuries, the stone barrier we know as Hadrian’s Wall shielded Roman Britain from the unconquered barbarians of the island’s northern highlands. But when Valeria, a senator’s daughter, is sent to the Wall for an arranged marriage to an aristocratic officer in 367 AD, her journey unleashes jealousy, passion and epic war. Valeria’s new husband, Marcus, has supplanted the brutally effic

Author: Fr. Rolfe
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Keywords: books, classics, review, york, seventh, new, hadrian
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 2001-03-12
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0940322625
ISBN-13: 9780940322622

One day George Arthur Rose, hack writer and minor priest, discovers that he has been picked to be Pope. He is hardly surprised and not in the least daunted. “The previous English pontiff was Hadrian the Fourth,” he declares. “The present English pontiff is Hadrian the Seventh. It pleases Us; and so, by Our own impulse, We command.” Hadrian is conceived in the image of his creator, Fr. Rolfe, whose aristocratic pretensions (he called himself Baron Corvo), religious obsession, and anarchic and self-aggrandizing sensibility have made him known as one of the great English eccentrics. Fr. R

Author: Elizabeth Speller
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: roman, empire, journey, century, hadrian, second, following
Number of Pages: 361
Published: 2004-10-14
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0195176138
ISBN-13: 9780195176131

One of the greatest--and most enigmatic--Roman emperors, Hadrian stabilized the imperial borders, established peace throughout the empire, patronized the arts, and built an architectural legacy that lasts to this day: the great villa at Tivoli, the domed wonder of the Pantheon, and the eponymous wall that stretches across Britain. Yet the story of his reign is also a tale of intrigue, domestic discord, and murder. In Following Hadrian, Elizabeth Speller captures the fascinating life of Hadrian, ruler of the most powerful empire on earth at the peak of its glory. Speller displays a superb gift

Authors:Anthony R Birley, Anthony R. Birley,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: imperial, biographies, roman, emperor, restless, hadrian
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 2000-04
List price: $42.95
ISBN-10: 0415228123
ISBN-13: 9780415228121

This widely acclaimed book brilliantly uses new evidence to chronicle the life of a man who, while broken and hated at his death, nevertheless left an indelible stamp on the Roman Empire. Birley shows how Hadrian brazenly abandoned his predecessor Trajan’s eastern conquests, constructed new demarcation lines in Germany, North Africa, and most famously Hadrian’s Wall in Britain, to limit the expansion of the Empire. This engrossing book also explores Hadrian’s dramatic personal life, including his tragic love affair with the young Antinous, whose death in the Nile caused sp