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noun - Roman Emperor who was the adoptive son of Trajan
HADRIAN - Hadrian (; Latin: Publius Aelius Hadrianus Augustus; 24 January 76 10 July 138 AD) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138. He was born Publius Aelius Had...
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Known for his long wall, he also built Rome's magnificent Athenaeum |
This emperor for whom a wall is named built a spectacular villa at Tivoli, near Rome |
Around 122 A.D. this emperor ordered a wall built to separate the Romans from the Barbarians |
One of the largest Roman remains in England is this emperor's 73-mile-long wall of stone & turf |
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us the model of ancient Jerusalem at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.) Still standing today, the walls of Jerusalem's Old City existed in the 1st century; they were destroyed along with the temple, but rebuilt by this Emperor, better known for a wall in Britain |
Roman emperor, 117-138, he built walls in Germany as well as in Britain |
117-138 A.D.:Had his own "wall" of fame |
A biographer said he "was the first to build a wall, 80 miles long, to separate the Romans from the Barbarians" |
A cousin of Trajan, this Roman emperor built a 2nd century protective wall across Britain |
This Emperor's wall was completed around 126 A.D. |
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Hadrian (; Latin: Publius Aelius Hadrianus Augustus; 24 January 76 10 July 138 AD) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138. He was born Publius Aelius Hadrianus, probably at Italica, near Santiponce (in modern-day Spain), into a Hispano-Roman family. His father was of senatorial rank, and was a first cousin of the emperor Trajan. Early in Hadrian's career, before Trajan became emperor, he married Trajan's grand-niece Vibia Sabina, possibly at the behest of Trajan's wife, Pompeia Plotina. Plotina and Trajan's close friend and adviser Licinius Sura were well disposed towards Hadrian. When Trajan died, his widow claimed that immediately before his death, he had nominated Hadrian as emperor. * Rome's military and Senate approved Hadrian's succession, but soon after, four leading senators who had opposed Hadrian, or seemed to threaten his succession, were unlawfully put to death; the senate held Hadrian responsible for this, and never forgave him. He earned further disapproval among the elite by |