Tom Holland on Rome’s golden age
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The Death of Hadrian
I end with the death of Hadrian, partly because I think very few emperors are properly revolutionary. He is an emperor who at the very least changes the mood music of the Roman world. And he does that because he recognizes that Rome herself is being changed by the world. That Rome is ceasing to be Roman in the sense that it had been back in the age of Caesar or Nero.
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