Hadrian
c. 76 CE–c. 138 CE · Italica
Hadrian (76–138 CE) was a Nerva-Antonine emperor, a cultured patron of the arts and architecture who consolidated the empire's borders and built Hadrian's Wall in Britain. His reign saw the Bar Kokhba revolt (132–135 CE) in Judaea, sparked in part by his founding of the Roman colony Aelia Capitolina on the ruins of Jerusalem with a temple to Jupiter; he renamed the province Syria Palaestina after suppressing the revolt. In the aftermath Rome banned key Jewish practices and several leading sages were executed, among them Rabbi Akiva, who in Jewish tradition had hailed the rebel leader Bar Kokhba as a messianic figure.
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Hadrian was born on 24 January 76 into a family from Italica in Baetica. Most ancient sources and his horoscope name Italica as his birthplace, though the Historia Augusta alone claims Rome.
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Graeco-Roman world
- Dio Chrysostom· 40 CE–115 CE
- Plutarch· 46 CE–120 CE
- Trajan· 53 CE–117 CE
- Epictetus· 55 CE–135 CE
- Juvenal· 55 CE–130 CE
- Tacitus· 56 CE–120 CE
- Nicomachus of Gerasa· 60 CE–120 CE
- Pliny the Younger· 61 CE–113 CE
- Philo of Byblos· 64 CE–141 CE
- Suetonius· 69 CE–130 CE
- Theon Smyrnaeus· 70 CE–135 CE
- Florus· 74 CE–130 CE
- Aretaeus of Cappadocia· 80 CE–150 CE
- Favorinus of Arelate· 80 CE–160 CE
- Oenomaus of Gadara· 85 CE–145 CE
- Arrian· 86 CE–160 CE
- Antoninus Pius· 86 CE–161 CE
- Dionysius Periegetes· 90 CE–140 CE
- Marcus Antonius Polemon· 90 CE–144 CE
- Appian of Alexandria· 95 CE–165 CE
- Claudius Ptolemaeus· 100 CE–170 CE
- Xenophon of Ephesus· 100 CE–170 CE
- Alcinous· 100 CE–
- Achilles Tatius· 115 CE–155 CE
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