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Adams has proposed that the inscriptions, rather than dividing Athens into an old city of Theseus and a new city of Hadrian (Hadrianopolis), claim the entire city as a refoundation by the emperor. [14] In this view, the inscriptions should be read: this is Athens, once the city of Theseus; this is the city of Hadrian, and not of Theseus.
Hadrian's Library was a monumental building created by Roman Emperor Hadrian in AD 132 on the north side of the Acropolis of Athens. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The main entrance to the library was part of the Stoa of Hadrian with columns of Karystian marble and Pentelic capitals.
The Panhellenion (Greek: Πανελλήνιον) or Panhellenium was a league of Greek city-states established in the year 131–132 AD by the Roman Emperor Hadrian while he was touring the Roman provinces of Greece. The League was established following a ceremony at the Temple of Olympian Zeus in Athens, the capital city of the Panhellenion ...
Athens is a city and the county seat of Athens County, Ohio, United States.The population was 23,849 at the 2020 United States census. [5] Located along the Hocking River within Appalachian Ohio about 65 miles (105 km) southeast of Columbus, Athens is best known as the home of Ohio University, a large public research university with an undergraduate and graduate enrollment of more than 21,000 ...
Hadrian's Arch in central Athens, Greece. [3] Hadrian's admiration for Greece materialised in such projects ordered during his reign. Publius Aelius Hadrianus was born on 24 January 76, in Italica (modern Santiponce, near Seville), a Roman town founded by Italic settlers in the province of Hispania Baetica during the Second Punic War at the initiative of Scipio Africanus; Hadrian's branch of ...
Adrianis (also Hadrianis, Ancient Greek: Ἀδριανίς) was a tribe added by the ancient Athenians to the previous list of 12 tribes in 126−127 A.D. [1] The tribe was named after the Roman emperor Hadrian. Hadrian first visited Athens in the fall of 125 [verification needed] A.D., with
Hadrianopolis, a former quarter of Athens, Greece; see Arch of Hadrian (Athens) Hadrianopolis in Epiro, a town and bishopric of ancient Epirus, now Albania; Hadrianopolis in Haemimontus, a former name of Edirne, Turkey; Hadrianopolis (Macedonia), a town of ancient Macedonia, Greece
Athens Downtown Historic District is a registered historic district in Athens, Ohio, United States, listed in the National Register on September 30, 1982. It contains 88 contributing buildings, made from an assortment of materials.