The Athenian Agora is often called the birthplace of democracy—this ... Built in AD 132 by Roman Emperor Hadrian, this was once a major cultural hub in Athens. It held over 17,000 books, scrolls ...

Inhabited between the 1st century B.C.E. and the 8th century C.E., this city was named in honor of Roman emperor Hadrian and is the birthplace of several saints. Because of its long and complex ...

Hadrian’s Wall in northern England was built to mark the boundaries of the Roman Empire and to keep the Scots out. Constructed after the visit of Emperor Hadrian in 122 AD by the Roman army ...

As with the other volumes in the useful Bloomsbury series “Ancients in Action,” Morwood’s Hadrian is a short book about the peripatetic Emperor and his world, rather than a biography or even a “life ...

Hadrian’s Wall in northern England was built to mark the boundaries of the Roman Empire and to keep the Scots out. Constructed after the visit of Emperor Hadrian in 122 AD by the Roman army ...