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File:3694 - Athens - Library of Hadrian - Facade - Photo by Giovanni Dall'Orto, Nov 9 2009.jpg
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.
Location of Athens County in Ohio. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Athens County, Ohio. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Athens County, Ohio, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for ...
English: Colossal portrait head of the emperor Hadrian with a wreath of oak leaves (AD 117-138). Pentelic marble, found in Athens. National Archaeological Museum in Athens, Room 32.Picture by Giovanni Dall'Orto, November 11 2009.
Lancaster. Lancaster, founded in 1800, is located close to the Hocking River. It hosts the Fairfield County Fair, a weeklong county fair in Ohio where you can enjoy activities like horse riding ...
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.
The Victoria Romana from Hadrian's Library (Greek: Νίκη της Βιβλιοθήκης του Αδριανού) is a large sculpture of the Greek goddess of victory Nike (known to the Romans as Victoria) that once adorned Hadrian's Library, a large library built in Athens by the Roman Emperor Hadrian (r. 117–138 AD) during the second ...
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