Publius Aelius Hadrianus, known to history as Hadrian, was born on 24 January 76 and died on 10 July 138. He is remembered above all as Roman emperor from 117 to 138, builder of a great frontier wall in Britain, patron of Greek culture, architect of the Pantheon’s reconstruction, traveler across nearly every major province of the empire, and the grieving lover who raised the drowned Antinous into divine memory. Yet h…
“My little soul, wandering, charming, guest and companion of the body, into what places will you now go?”
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in English as Horace, was born on 8 December 65 BC at Venusia, a Roman colony near the borderlands of Apulia and Lucania in southern Italy, and died at Rome on 27 November 8 BC. He lived through one of the most violent transformations in Roman history: the final collapse of the Republic, the civil wars that followed Julius Caesar’s assassination, and the consolidation of Augustus’ new…
“Even the great Homer sometimes nods.”
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