The emperor Publio Elio Adriano (117-138d. C.) he was the authentic unifier of the Roman Empire. Tireless traveler, made a show also of a difficult and unstable character started to the rancor and the pride. It did not leave very good memory between his contemporaries, and the August History describes it as a man simultaneously severely and happily, affably and rigorously, in addition to cruel and always inconstant.
Capable and intelligent, he reminds him to himself especially for his trips. Pero Adriano was also a man of unstable personality, simultaneously severe and happy, affable and cruel. Although his father was a Trajano cousin, and to that he was himself protected from this emperor, Adriano did not have it easy during his youth. Between other things, he was despised by his provincial accent and by his devout admiration for everything Hellene. Pero Adriano was provided with an excellent preparation. Born in Italic, remained orphan at the age of ten and Trajano, which was a cousin of his father and was occupying in that epoch important military and political charges in Rome, took him with him to Italy. Trajano entrusted his education to an excellent teacher, and then it made him fight in all kinds of political and military charges. Adriano also was next to Trajano in his last campaign, in Partia.
It was the last time that Adriano saw his alive mentor. The covey stopped in Cyprus and on August 7 of the year 117 Adriano was informed that had been adopted by Trajano; only two days later, on August 9, he announced to himself that the sovereign one had died. On August 11, the Syrian troops proclaimed Adriano an emperor. Nevertheless, the Senate did not show a disposition so favorable as the one that the Asian Greeks had offered him. Many people were suspecting that in Adriano's elevation there had an important role his wife, Plotina, wife of Trajano. It was said that it was Plotina who prepared the Trajano testament, when this one was in the death bed, to designate Adriano as heir of the Empire.
And so, Adriano was not lacking enemies that they were considering it a careerist. During the first year of his order, Adriano dealt with stabilizing the situation in East. It was then, and after a conspiracy in Rome that it was gliding to demolish him, when his presence realized the precarious of his power and of how necessary age in the capital of the empire. Adriano practised like ordinary consul during two following years and was involved in all the tasks of the government: he was present at the pertinent meetings, made the senators participants of his decisions and gained him his confidence with his visits of courteousness and his exquisite personal dealing. And to gain him the favor of the people, Adriano was coming to the spa like one more citizen to converse and joke with the swimmers. Adriano, then, loved to gain the appreciation of Rome.
The emperor entrusted to Apolodoro of Damascus the construction of a big temple dedicated to Venus and Rome. It was inaugurated in the year 121, although the works extended for many other years. Since then the temple turned into a symbol of the imperial power. Other works that Adriano attacked in Rome were showing it like the big guardian of the respect to the traditions: the Pantheon raised by Agripa and that it ordered to reconstruct; the reforms realized in Saepta Iulia, the forum of August and the temple of Bona Dea; the temples raised in honor of Trajano and Plotina in the imperial forum … Even his most personal architectural project, his mausoleum, which was erected to image and resemblance of of August, was thinking about how to show him like the real spiritual heir and politician of the founder of the Empire. At the end of his life, Adriano decided to move back to Berries after having left the reins of the Empire to Antonino Pío, whom little had adopted earlier. When he died, the Senate suffered by the executions of his members, he wanted to destroy his memory.
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