Volume 46, Number 19 · December 2, 1999
Who Was Hadrian?
By Hugh Lloyd-Jones
Hadrian: The Restless Emperor
by Anthony R. Birley
Routledge, 399 pp., $50.00
Even if one does not agree with the German scholar Otto Hirschfeld, who in 1905 called Hadrian 'the most remarkable of all the Roman emperors,' one may agree with Sir Samuel Dill, at one time professor at Belfast, who a year earlier had called him 'the most interesting' among them. Ancient writers remark on his complicated character, on his having many admirable qualities and at the same time their opposites.
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