* Emperor Hadrian begins to rebuild the Olympeion in Athens.

* Hadrian begins his inspection of the provinces of Greece, Asia Minor and Egypt.

* Construction begins on the Mausoleum of Hadrian in Rome, today known as Castel Sant ' Angelo.

* A Jewish diaspora begins as emperor Hadrian bars Jews from Jerusalem and has survivors of the massacre dispersed across the Roman Empire.

They deposed the country's leader, Mannus, and replaced him with their own nominee, who would remain in office until 165 .< ref > Birley, Marcus Aurelius, 130, 279 n. 38 ; " Hadrian to the Antonines ", 163, citing Prosopographia Imperii Romani < sup > 2 </ sup > M 169 .</ ref > ( The Edessene coinage record actually begins at this point, with issues showing Vologases IV on the obverse and " Wael the king " ( Syriac: W ' L MLK ') on the reverse ).

The story begins with Hadrian, who is around sixty years of age, describing his incurable illness.

Hadrian, now in advanced age and very poor health, begins to fear death and contemplates suicide through various means.

Although its title corresponds to that given by the Armenian fragment and by Eusebius, it begins with a formal inscription to the emperor Titus Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius ; and Dr. Rendel Harris is followed by Adolf von Harnack and others in supposing that it was only through a careless reading of this inscription that the work was supposed to have been addressed to Hadrian.

He was elected upon the refusal of Hadrian, the initial choice of the clergy and people.

Following Wighard's death, Theodore was chosen upon the recommendation of Hadrian ( later abbot of St. Peter's, Canterbury ).

Trajan started it but after his death Emperor Hadrian ( 117-138 ) finished the temple in Corinthian order and it was placed upon a terrace with dimensions of.

As for the anti-circumcision law passed by Hadrian, it is considered by many, to be, together with his decision to build a new temple upon the ruins of the Second Temple, which was dedicated to Jupiter, one of the main causes of the Bar Kokhba revolt ( 132-135 ).

To mark the inauguration of his temple, Hadrian struck coinage that carry his effigy accompanied by Serapis, upon a dais where two columns support a round canopy.

Citizens of Rome were familiar with the plain round globe as a representation of the world or universe, represented by Jupiter and thus the emperor's dominion and protectorate over it ; for example a 4th century coin from the reign of Emperor Constantine I shows him holding a globus in hand, and a 2nd century coin from the reign of Emperor Hadrian shows the Roman god Salus with his foot upon a globus.

These classes were included in these provisions, however, upon a decree of the senate during the reign of the Emperor Hadrian.

Nothing is known of him or of the date at which he lived ; the times of Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, the beginning of the 3rd century, and the age of Diocletian and Constantine have all been suggested.

In 127, at the age of six, Marcus was enrolled in the equestrian order on the recommendation of Emperor Hadrian.

" At an irreducible minimum he was born to a Greek family in Bithynion-Claudiopolis, in the Roman province of Bithynia in what is now north-west Turkey, and joined the entourage of the emperor Hadrian at a young age, although nothing certain is known of how, when, or where he and Hadrian met.

' He must, nevertheless, have been thirty years of age when he began to study with Hadrian.

Theodore and Hadrian established a school in Canterbury, providing instruction in both Greek and Latin, resulting in a " golden age " of Anglo-Saxon scholarship:

Bubastite coins of the age of Hadrian exist.

Hadrian was about age 10 or 11 when he lost his father, who was a first cousin to Trajan ( Trajan ’ s father and Hadrian ’ s paternal grandmother were brother and sister ).

From the time of Hadrian ( 117-138 ), any rationalis hailed from the Equestrian Order ( equites ) and remained so through the chaos of the 3rd century and into the age of Diocletian.

From the time of Hadrian ( 117-138 ), any rationalis hailed from the Equestrian Order ( equites ) and remained so through the chaos of the 3rd century and into the age of Diocletian.

He was next appointed by the Emperor Hadrian as one of the four proconsuls to administer Italia, then greatly increased his reputation by his conduct as proconsul of Asia, probably during 134 – 135.

Hadrian quickly secured the support of the legions — one potential opponent, Lusius Quietus, was promptly dismissed.

Deeply saddened, Hadrian founded the Egyptian city of Antinopolis in his memory, and had Antinous deified – an unprecedented honour for one not of the ruling family.

Hadrian wrote poetry in both Latin and Greek ; one of the few surviving examples is a Latin poem he reportedly composed on his deathbed ( see below ).

Hadrian was a passionate hunter from the time of his youth according to one source.

In 136, shortly after Marcus assumed the toga virilis symbolizing his passage into manhood, Hadrian arranged for his engagement to one of Commodus ' daughters, Ceionia Fabia.

The papal legates voiced their approval of the restoration of the veneration of icons in no uncertain terms, and the patriarch sent a full account of the proceedings of the council to Pope Hadrian I, who had it translated ( the translation Anastasius later replaced with a better one ).

For what is there in common between a life lived among the favourites of Hadrian, by one who did not abstain even from unnatural lusts, and that of the venerable Jesus, against whom even they who brought countless other charges, and who told so many falsehoods, were not able to allege that He manifested, even in the slightest degree, any tendency to what was licentious?

He says, ' They built monuments and temples to their dead as we see up to the present day, such as the one to Antinous, servant to the Emperor Hadrian, in whose honour also games were celebrated, and a city founded bearing his name, and a temple with priests established.

In Marguerite Yourcenar's Mémoires d ' Hadrien ( 1951 ), the love relationship between Antinous and Hadrian is one of the main themes of the book.

Gerberga then fled (" for no reason at all ") with her sons and Count Autchar, one of Carloman's faithful nobles, to the court of Desiderius, who demanded of the new Pope Hadrian I that he anoint Carloman's sons as Kings of the Franks.

Arrian left Cappadocia shortly before the death of his patron Hadrian, in 138, and there is no evidence for any further public appointments until 145 / 6 when he was elected Archon at Athens, once the city's leading political post but by this time an honorary one.

In this novel Yourcenar recreated the life and death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world, the Roman Emperor Hadrian, who writes a long letter to Marcus Aurelius, the son and heir of Antoninus Pius, his successor and adoptive son.

Finished by Hadrian but not claimed as one of his works, it used the text of the original inscription on the new facade ( a common practice in Hadrian's rebuilding projects all over Rome ; the only building on which Hadrian put his own name was the Temple to the Deified Trajan ).

This is a basilica shaped building constructed under the reign of Hadrian, then, in the 4th century, it was converted into a church dedicated to St. John and became one of the Seven Churches of Christianity.

As did Hadrian, emperors Marcus Aurelius, Commodus, Septimius Severus and Constantine I, all visited Aqua Balissae's thermal complex, its decorated temple, its forum and its, ( though not as big as the one in Pula ), amphitheatre.

His pyramid was not the only one in Rome ; a larger one — the so-called " pyramid of Romulus "— of similar form but unknown origins stood between the Vatican and the Mausoleum of Hadrian but was demolished in the 16th century.

Inscriptions offer evidence on the following Roman monuments: an aqueduct constructed by Hadrian and restored by Alexander Severus bears a dedicatory inscription at Arapaj, a short distance from Durazzo: ( Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum III, 1-709 ); the Roman temple of Minerva ; the Temple of Diana ( CIL III, 1-602 ), which is perhaps the one mentioned by Appian ( BCiv.

Sometime after his African Proconsulship, he may have accompanied on one of the Roman Emperor Hadrian ’ s numerous journeys around the Roman Empire.

The Nervan-Antonine dynasty also marks the first time that an Emperor was depicted with a beard ( Emperor Hadrian ), and one of the first times that a deceased Emperor was inhumed rather than cremated ( Antoninus Pius ).

The Via Dolorosa is the modern remnant of one of the two main east-west routes ( Decumanus Maximus ) through Aelia Capitolina, as built by Hadrian.