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| Hadrian: The Restless Emperor (Roman Imperial Biographies) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Anthony R Birley, Anthony R. Birley
Publisher: Routledge
Category: Book
List Price: £21.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 300140
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 424
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0415228123
Dewey Decimal Number: 909
EAN: 9780415228121
ASIN: 0415228123
Publication Date: February 24, 2000
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 very dry January 28, 1999
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
The book was so dry and boring, I never became interested in Hadrian through the whole book. The book was a detailed chronology of his life, but only the events. His life as a whole wasn't pulled together. I finished the book without a better understanding that I started with.
 The Wandering Emperor Re-Examined September 27, 1998
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
I have just completed Anthony Birley's methodical biography of Hadrian. While weakened by a lack of psychological insight into the character and motivations of my favorite emperor, this tome did splendid work of mentioning the very numerous individuals whose careers in the military and civil service crossed Hadrian's own unique path. Birley's use of epigraphic sources greatly fleshes out the skimpy, and often tertiary, record of Hadrian's rule. In spite of these scholarly advances, Hadrian remains an enigma in this work, which devotes little attention to Hadrian's villas in Tivoli or Praeneste, and ultimately, to his grand legacy.
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