Hadrian Sestertius struck in Rome between 130-133.
Obverse legend reads “HADRIANVS AVG COS III PP”
Reverse legend reads “EXERC BRITANNVS”
Reverse depicts Hadrian addressing the legions after the completion of Hadrian’s wall in Britannia.
Photo credit to Numismatica Ars Classica
By Hadrian
Translated by W. S. Merwin
Little soul little stray
little drifter
now where will you stay
all pale and all alone
after the way
you used to make fun of things
I wonder if Antinous was scared of aging. His beauty was the only thing that mattered, to the point that it’s the only thing we know about him. Maybe he thought he’d be useless. Oh god what if that why he jumped in the Nile?
Discover the devastating earthquake that struck Antioch in 115 AD, claimed 260,000 lives, and almost killed Emperor Trajan and his successor Hadrian
The Ancient Antioch Earthquake That Almost Killed Two Emperors
Discover the devastating earthquake that struck Antioch in 115 AD, claimed 260,000 lives, and almost killed Emperor Trajan and his successor Hadrian
The Ancient Antioch Earthquake That Almost Killed Two Emperors
Just finished Shadows Upon Time. Needless to say im distraught. But heres some more suneater art for the culture. Im in the process of doing lineups of the rest of the red company (at the very least Lorian and Bassander) to cope with the loss that I have finished one of my favorite series of all time. I may or may not design more covers we shall see….
1950🥳
[[MORE]]It’s probably not a real quote but a nice idea (and I am aware of the irony)
Great things I found during my research for “The Emperor’s Face”: an article about the creases in Hadrian’s ears. Yes. And it potentially having a connection to coronary heart disease. Here, have some screenshots of the article:
“competitive, achievment-oriented, involved in multiple activities with deadlines, impatient with slowness in others, like to set a rapid work pace, and tend to be hostile and aggressive”. yea, some of that I picked up in my depiction of Hadrian. Not everything, though.
But the best part of the article is this, that follows right after:
And here, The Emperor’s Ear. The only thing consistent in ALL his portraits, they are otherwise pretty different from eachother.
The crease clearly visible across the earlobe.
The whole article is here: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/instance/1271965/pdf/westjmed00233-0096.pdf
Happy 1950th birthday, Publius Aelius Hadrianus. Or if you prefer Imperator Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus.
ALTToday is the birthday of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, born on 24 January in 76CE. His statue is pictured here (left) beside a statue of his lover, Antinous.
In 130CE, Antinous drowned in the Nile. In his grief, Hadrian named a flower and a star after Antinous, founded the city of Antinoopolis, and made Antinous into a god. So many statues of Antinous were made that he became one of the most commonly depicted people in the Graeco-Roman world.
bild KI generiert
Die Geschichte zwischen Kaiser Hadrian und dem Jüngling Antinous ist weit mehr als eine antike Romanze; sie ist das Fundament eines Kultes, der die Grenze zwischen Mensch und Gott auflöste. Als Antinous im Jahr 130 n. Chr. unter mysteriösen Umständen im Nil ertrank, reagierte der Kaiser nicht nur mit privater Trauer, sondern mit einer beispiellosen staatlichen Inszenierung: Er erhob seinen Gefährten in den Stand der Gottheit. Hadrian ließ Städte nach ihm benennen und im gesamten Römischen Reich Tausende von Statuen errichten, die das Idealbild des Jünglings verewigten.
Für Stefan George und seinen Kreis wurde dieser Akt zum zentralen Symbol: Er bewies, dass die Macht des Geistes und die Tiefe des Gefühls in der Lage sind, ein vergängliches Leben in eine ewige, sakrale Gestalt zu verwandeln. In der kaiserlichen Trauer Hadrians sah der Kreis das Urbild für Georges eigene Verehrung des Maximin – die Verklärung des Geliebten zum unsterblichen Monument.
Kuratiert im Archiv der Gestalt · Bastian Van Dietz
ALTI’ve spent so much time thinking about these two. Now it’s only a couple of weeks until the novel is out in the world.
(Picture: Carole Raddato, from British museum.)
Love that hes from the hometown of the og twink. Because well, idk just look at him
Which also happens to be my boyfriends hometown
Oh well
So I didn’t get him under my tree this year but its ok cause at least I can draw so ill take what i can get
(Im up to the part in Shadows Upon Time where Hadrian is basically FaceTiming Kedron and he describes his own hair as extremely long and put in a side ponytail and to say i was pacing around my room like a rabid dog after reading that is an understatement)
