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“A fascinating insight into the mind of the Roman emperor.”—Sunday Telegraph (London)“Excellent . . . highly recommended . . . a skillfully analyzed and well-researched narrative.”—Library Journal “One gets a clear and compelling sense of Hadrian’s times.”—The New Yorker “[A] skillful portrait . . . The author of biographies of Augustus and Cicero, British scholar Everitt now combines academic expertise with lively prose in a satisfying account of the emperor.”—Publishers Weekly
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Anthony Everitt, visiting professor in the visual and performing arts at Nottingham Trent University, has written extensively on European culture, and is the author of Cicero and Augustus. He has served as secretary general of the Arts Council of Great Britain. Everitt lives near Colchester, England’s first recorded town, founded by the Romans.
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Product details
Paperback: 448 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition (September 14, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0812978145
ISBN-13: 978-0812978148
Product Dimensions:
6.1 x 1 x 9.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.2 out of 5 stars
86 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#458,557 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
I enjoyed reading Anthony Everitt's book on Hadrian. Like many other comments here, I too felt he spent too much time describing the political world unto which Hadrian emerges. Frankly, the first half of the book where he does this was on the boring side, and I almost set it aside.Thankfully, the second half where Everitt focuses on Hadrian is much more interesting, particularly the themes of Hadrian's (homo)sexuality and Antinous and how that was thought of in ancient Greece, ancient Rome, and today, as well as Hadrian's love and support of Greek culture and his "Grand Tour" of the Roman empire.I appreciated his introduction and afterwards where he explained particular problems regarding the reliability of ancient sources on Hadrian. I also liked that Everitt integrated the sources into the text, without the use of footnotes. (Is ANYTHING more annoying than to constantly have to flip back and forth??)One concern I had was that the narrative almost seemed too smooth, especially given what Everitt's says about the quality of the sources. He does occasionally go through variations of what happened in particular instances based on the different primary sources, it's just that I wondered about the validity of the rest.Additionally, I would have appreciated much much more perspective on how Hadrian is perceived today and in subsequent years, or how Hadrian affected the course of Rome. The final chapter does this but it was way way too short.I'd like to give the book a 5 because Everitt is such a smooth and polished writer and historian, but, given the above, a 4 fits better.
This is a very well documented biography of the Emperor Hadrian based on historical writings of his contemporaries and later historians. The author is careful not to make too many assumptions about Hadrian's personality, private life and habits and focuses primarily on his reign as emperor and military exploits. Everitt does have a chapter on his relationship with Antinous, the young Bithynian whom Hadrian was so enamored with that he made him into a god after his mysterious death. He explores his relationship with his contemporaries, his soldiers, and his officers more in depth than he does Hadrian's family, assuming this is because of lack of written historical documentation. Everitt also gives an excellent timeline of his travels across the Roman Empire, as well as his methodology for keeping the pax romana rather than using up resources for further expansion. Overall, an excellent book.
A good read, lots of substance........well paced, easy, digestible chapters, with clear text for the casual historian as well as the serious student. The author explores Hadrian as an object of biography, not as a sterile academic 'term paper'. What's really interesting here is the author's quiet allusion to Hadrian as an early example --indeed, likely the original example-- of a world leader at the crossroads of history who questions long held geopolitical assumptions. Like recent past examples (Richard Nixon, Deng Xiaoping, Mikhail Gorbachev), Hadrian looks at the realities of the moment and has the wisdom and courage to see and consider alternatives. In his case, it was the modest retreat of Roman armies to much more defensible, stable borders, but still maintaining the lucrative broad interests of the Roman Empire.....trade routes (the eastern Mediterranean ), key natural resources (Great Britain),friendly allied tribes (present day Spain, Germany), etc. By retreating from the Tigris, Euphrates rivers, moving south of the Danube and west of the Rhine, building a wall across present day southern Scotland, Hadrian help launch a very stable period of economic and social stability across the wider empire that still has implications to this day. During a quiet interlude in the civil wars before the great denouement at Actium (31 BC), Mark Anthony reached the Caspian Sea and present day Baghdad in hopes of overcoming the Armenians and the Parthians......what would the world be the like today if the Romans had remained for a few hundred years? By the way, Anthony had a large contingent of Jewish mercenaries with him at the time.......very tough fighting men for their day.
Another excellent product from Anthony Everitt, although I do have one caveat on this book. There was a seeming paucity of documented information on Hadrian, especially his pre-Emperor years, versus what Mr. Everitt relayed about Augustus and Cicero. This leads to a lot of suppositions which detract only slightly from the overall work. I could honestly say on of the "extars" I gleaned from the book due to the lack of documentation of Hadrian's early life is learning much more about Trajan and his life and times as Emperor.In addition, I did feel that more detail was given in this book to the actual specifics of governing Rome and Roman lifestyle and habits than the readers ever received with the other two biographies.Mr. Everitt has a great way of putting things and I find myself chuckling often through his books. One is very much drawn in and feels like the character in the book has been known for years. I can actually envision some of the things happening.As always, I remain a fan of Mr. Everitt's work. I am willing to purchase any of his writings if on a topic of interest to me.
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