Following Hadrian: A Second-Century Journey Through the Roman Empire

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Faber & Faber, Limited, 2008 - Biography & Autobiography - 356 pages
Tells the story of the most powerful man on earth in the early part of the second century. The man who built Hadrian's Wall, the Pantheon in Rome, and, for himself, a nine hundred-room villa at Tivoli. Hadrian was a great but flawed Roman Emperor, an intellectual and patron of the arts but he was also melancholy, volatile and utterly ruthless.

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About the author (2008)

Elizabeth Speller studied Archaeology and Classics at Cambridge as a mature student, followed by a post-graduate degree in Ancient History. She has travelled extensively in Italy, Greece and Turkey. She has lived in Berlin and Rome and is now domiciled in Roman Corinium (Cirencester). She has written for publications as varied as the Observer, the Big Issue and Erotic Review.

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