Antinoöpolis: Why did Emperor Hadrian build a city in Egypt?
Barbara Gai explores Hadrian’s obsession with a young Greek boy and the events that led to the founding of Antinoöpolis in Middle Egypt.
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Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern
Few people have recently had as much face time with the ghosts of the Roman emperors as Mary Beard, a well-known professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge. Her latest book – Twelve Caesars: images of power from the…