He also restored Hadrian ’ s Wall and its forts.

Outside the town, in Santa Maria Capua Vetere, there is the amphitheatre, built in the time of Augustus, restored by Hadrian and dedicated by Antoninus Pius, as the inscription over the main entrance recorded.

The city was particularly favoured by the Roman emperors Trajan and Hadrian, who restored and established its public buildings.

It was restored in the Imperial era, once by the empress Livia, wife of Augustus, and perhaps again by Hadrian.

Pope Leo I restored it around 460, and it was again restored by Pope Hadrian.

Macedonian king Antigonus III Doson renamed the city Antigonia ; Mantineia's name was restored by Hadrian.

The emperor Hadrian restored the horse-racing of boys at the Nemea, which had fallen into disuse.

Some fifty years later Hadrian restored the temple on Mt.

He was then quickly restored to his former prestige and reunited with his family ; but when he demonstrated his new faith by refusing to make a pagan sacrifice, the emperor, Hadrian, condemned Eustace, his wife, and his sons to be roasted to death inside a bronze statue of a bull or an ox, in the year AD 118.

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.

After the earliest period, the history of which is essentially unknown, but to which the walls in the core hill portion of the town attest, dated to the 1st century BC, the first stage of the development of Trevi beyond the hill took place under the Empire, when Hadrian restored the main road through the territory, the Via Flaminia, thus spurring the growth of a suburb in the plain at the place now called Pietrarossa, where sporadic excavations over several centuries have brought to light many remains: among them Roman baths that appear to have been still more or less in use in the time of St. Francis, who is known to have visited the area and to have advised people to bathe there.

The Roman emperor Hadrian built the theater in the center of the town, on a hill, when many buildings in the roman province of Macedonia were being restored.

The temple was destroyed by a fire during the reign of Septimius Severus and then restored: being the coins from the period of Augustus and Hadrian, there is also a possibility that the order of the temple was changed during the restoration by Septimius Severus.

Adjacent to the Forum, at the junction of the same cardo, and the other decumanus, Hadrian built a large temple to the goddess Venus, which later became the Church of the Holy Sepulchre ; despite 11th century destruction, which resulted in the modern Church having a much smaller footprint, several boundary walls of Hadrian's temple have been found among the archaeological remains beneath the Church.

The Struthion Pool lay in the path of the northern decumanus, so Hadrian placed vaulting over it, added a large pavement on top, and turned it into a secondary Forum ; the pavement can still be seen under the Convent of the Sisters of Zion.

Above all, Hadrian patronized the arts: Hadrian's Villa at Tibur ( Tivoli ) was the greatest Roman example of an Alexandrian garden, recreating a sacred landscape, lost in large part to the despoliation of the ruins by the Cardinal d ' Este who had much of the marble removed to build Villa d ' Este.

" It was so large that the bulkiest man could walk through the eye of each horse, yet because of the extreme height of the foundation persons passing along on the ground below believe that the horses themselves as well as Hadrian are very very small.

* Hadrian returns large parts of Mesopotamia to the Parthians as part of a peace settlement.

In 1884 a fire burned down a large part of the neighborhood which gave the opportunity for the archaeologists to conduct excavations in the Roman Market and Hadrian ’ s library.

Hadrian built a large temple to the goddess Venus, which later became the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

When Hadrian rebuilt Jerusalem as Aelia Capitolina, he placed a roadway along the dam, and expanded the asclepieion into a large temple to Asclepius and Serapis.

Prior to Hadrian's changes, the area had been a large open-air pool of water, the Strouthion Pool mentioned by Josephus ; the pool still survives, under vaulting added by Hadrian so that the Forum could be built over it, and can be accessed from the portion of Roman paving under the Convent of the Sisters of Zion, and from the Western Wall Tunnel.

Hadrian put them to use as his spies, and thus had a ready-made service and a large body to act as a courier system.

Hadrian, who repaired the Via Appia from Beneventum to this point, made it a colony ; it has ruins of the city walls, of an aqueduct, baths and an amphitheatre ; nearly 400 inscriptions have also been discovered.

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.

Adjacent to the Church of Ecce Homo is an arch, running across the Via Dolorosa ; this arch was originally the central arch of a triple-arched gateway, built by Hadrian as the main entrance to the aforementioned Forum.

Hadrian and Antoninus Pius held similar celebrations, in 121 AD and 147 / 148 AD respectively.

Aelia Capitolina (; Latin in full: Colonia Aelia Capitolina ) was a city built by the emperor Hadrian, and occupied by a Roman colony, on the site of Jerusalem, which was in ruins since 70 AD, leading in part to the Bar Kokhba revolt of 132 – 136.

When the Roman Emperor Hadrian vowed to rebuild Jerusalem from the wreckage in 130 AD, he considered reconstructing Jerusalem as a gift for the Jewish people.

The Roman empire in 125 AD, under the rule of Hadrian.

The Iberian peninsula in the time of Hadrian ( ruled 117 – 138 AD ), showing, in western Iberian Peninsula | Iberia, the imperial province of Lusitania ( Portugal and Extremadura )

Construction began in the 6th century BC during the rule of the Athenian tyrants, who envisaged building the greatest temple in the ancient world, but it was not completed until the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century AD some 638 years after the project had begun.

A half-hearted attempt was made to complete the temple during Augustus ' reign as the first Roman emperor, but it was not until the accession of Hadrian in the 2nd century AD that the project was finally completed around 638 years after it had begun.

In 124-125 AD, when the strongly Philhellene Hadrian visited Athens, a massive building programme was begun that included the completion of the Temple of Olympian Zeus.

Map of the Roman empire under Hadrian ( 117 – 138 AD ), showing the location of the Alani at the time in the northeastern Caucasus region.

The Roman empire in the time of Hadrian ( ruled 117-138 AD ), showing, on the middle Danube river, the imperial province s of Pannonia Superior and Pannonia Inferior and the 2 Roman legion | legions deployed in each in 125

Map of the Roman Empire under Hadrian ( ruled 117 – 138 AD ), showing the location of the Scythae Basilaei (" Royal Scyths ") along the north shore of the Black Sea

The Roman empire in the time of Hadrian ( ruled 117-38 AD ), showing, in central Gaul, the imperial province of Gallia Lugdunensis ( north / central France ).

The Roman empire in the time of Hadrian ( ruled 117-138 AD ), showing, on the lower Danube river, the imperial province s of Moesia Superior ( Serbia ) and Moesia Inferior ( N. Bulgaria / coastal Romania ), and the 2 Roman legion | legion deployed in each in 125

Zenobius was a Greek sophist, who taught rhetoric at Rome during the reign of Emperor Hadrian ( AD 117-138 ).

80 – 160 AD ) was a Roman sophist and philosopher who flourished during the reign of Hadrian.

and spread again to the West due to the rise of the Roman Empire, in particular during the 2nd century AD, from the reign of Hadrian, after Epidaurus, the main center of the cult of Asclepius, had adopted him.

Although the archetypical image of Britannia seated on a shield first appeared on Roman bronze coins of the 1st century AD struck under Hadrian, Britannia's first appearance on British coinage was on the farthing in 1672, though earlier pattern versions had appeared in 1665, followed by the halfpenny later the same year.

Nemesis on a brass sestertius of Hadrian, struck at Rome AD 136.

* The city used to hold a statue of Roman emperor Hadrian ( 117-138 AD ).

Map of the Roman empire under Hadrian ( ruled 117-138 AD ), showing the location of the Sarmatae in the South Russian steppe region

In the second century AD the Emperor Hadrian, according to Dion Cassius, was the first of all the Caesars to grow a beard ; Plutarch says that he did it to hide scars on his face.

The 118 km-long Hadrian's Wall ( UK ) was built on the orders of the Emperor Hadrian c. AD 122 at the northernmost limits of the Roman province of Britannia.

The Roman empire in the time of Hadrian ( ruled 117-138 AD ), showing, on the upper Danube river, the imperial province of Raetia ( Switzerland / Tyrol / Germany S. of Danube ), with no Roman legion | legions deployed there in 125.

The phrase is quite old, it has famously been used by many leaders from Roman Emperor Hadrian in the first century AD, to Ronald Reagan in the 1980s.