Hadrian

76-138 A.D.

Hadrian, who came to power in 117 A.D., was one of the greatest of the Roman emperors, the third in the line of the "Adoptive Emperors". He was a successful general, under whom the Roman Empire reached its greatest extent. He was also an adventurer who loved travel and a talented architect who designed the Pantheon in Rome and his own villa outside Rome.

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