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CONTENTS
FIRST BOOK-POLITICAL HISTORY
CHAPTER I
An Ancient Portrait of Hadrian.
CHAPTER II
Circumstances in the Life of Hadrian until the Accession of
Trajan. -
CHAPTER III
Circumstances in the Life of Hadrian during the Reign of Trajan.
CHAPTER IV
Hadrian accompanies the Emperor in the Parthian War. Rising
of the Jews. Lusius Quietus. Death of Trajan and Adoption
of Hadrian.
CHAPTER V
Hadrian gives up the lately acquired Provinces of Trajan. The
State of Judaea. Fall of Lusius Quietus.
CHAPTER VI
Return of Hadrian to Rome by way of Illyricum. War with the
Roxolani. Arrangement of Affairs in Pannonia and Dacia.
Conspiracy and Execution of the Four Consulars. Arrival
of Hadrian in Rome in August 118 A.D.
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I
6
II
16
23
30
CHAPTER VII
Hadrian's First Acts in Rome. The Great Remission of Debt.
The Third Consulate of the Emperor. Fall of Attianus.
Marcius Turbo becomes Prefect. Death of Matidia Augusta.
The Palilia of the year 121 A.D.
37
CHAPTER VIII
General Remarks on Hadrian's Journeys. Coins which com-
memorate them.
45
CHAPTER IX
Hadrian's Journeys into Gaul and Germany as far as the Danubian
Provinces. The Condition of these Countries.
53
CHAPTER X
Hadrian in Britain. He goes through Gaul to Spain and Maure-
tania.
60
CHAPTER XI
Hadrian's First Journey to the East. The Countries on the
Pontus. Ilium. Pergamum. Cyzicus. Rhodes.
67
CHAPTER XII
Hadrian's Residence in Athens and in other cities of Greece.
Return of the Emperor to Rome by way of Sicily.
CHAPTER XIII
Hadrian in Rome. The Title Pater Patriae. The Emperor goes
to Africa. Condition of this Province. Carthage. Lambaesis.
CHAPTER XIV
77
87
Second Journey to the East. Hadrian in Athens and Eleusis.
Journey to Asia. Ephesus. Smyrna. Sardis.
93
CHAPTER XV
Hadrian in Syria. Antioch. Phoenicia. Heliopolis. Damascus.
104
Palmyra.
CHAPTER XVI
Hadrian in Judaea. Condition of Jerusalem.
Foundation of the
Colony Aelia Capitolina. Hadrian in Arabia. Bostra. Petra.
The Country of Peraea. Gaza. Pelusium.
CHAPTER XVII
Hadrian in Egypt. Condition of the Country.
Alexandria.
Letter of Hadrian to Servianus. Influence of Egypt and
Alexandria on the West.
CHAPTER XVIII
Hadrian's Journey on the Nile. Heliopolis. Death of Antinous.
Thebes. The Colossus of Memnon. Coptus. Myus Hormus.
Mons Claudianus. Return to Alexandria.
CHAPTER XIX
Hadrian returns from Egypt to Syria. He revisits Athens. Dedi-
cation of the Olympieum. Hadrian's divine Honours. -
CHAPTER XX
The Rising of the Jews under Barcocheba.
CHAPTER XXI
The Jewish War. Julius Severus assumes the Command of the
Roman Army. The Fall of Bether. The Destruction of
Judaea. -
CHAPTER XXII
The Colony Aelia Capitolina.
CHAPTER XXIII
The War with the Alani. Arrian's Periplus of the Black Sea.
CHAPTER XXIV
Hadrian's Last Years in Rome. Death of Sabina Augusta.
Adoption and Death of Aelius Verus. -
128
138
143
150
159
165
173
CHAPTER XXV
Adoption of Antoninus.
Death of the Emperor Hadrian. -
181
SECOND BOOK
THE STATE AND GENERAL CULTURE
The Roman Empire.
The Provinces of the Empire, their Government and their Relation
to the Central Power. The Peaceful Development of their
Civilization. Slavery. -
191
195
Roman Law. The Edictum Perpetuum. The Responsa. Roman
Jurists. The Resolutions of the Senate and the Imperial
Constitutions. The Reforming Spirit of Hadrian's Legisla-
tion.
211
216
226
Science and the Learned Professions. Latin and Greek Litera-
ture. The Schools. Athens. Smyrna. Alexandria. Rome.
234
Plutarch. Arrian. The Tactica. Philo of Byblus. Appian.
Phlegon. Hadrian's Memoirs.
243
Florus. Suetonius. Geography. Philology.
250
The Schools of Roman Oratory. Roman Orators. Cornelius
Fronto. -
253
Greek Sophistry. Favorinus. Dionysius of Miletus. Polemon.
Herodes Atticus and other Sophists.
260
Polite Literature. Hadrian as a Poet. Florus. Latin Poets.
Greek Poets. Pancrates. Mesomedes. The Musician
Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Greek Epigrams of Hadrian.
Phlegon. Artemidorus and His Dream Books. The
Romance of the Golden Ass.
Philosophy. The Stoa. Epictetus and the Enchiridion. Stoicism
and Cynicism. Demonax of Athens.
Peregrinus Proteus.
Alexander of Abonotichus.
Oracles. Plutarch their Apologist. Hadrian's Mysticism. The
Deification of Antinous.
273
282
290
294
301
Attempts to Restore Paganism. Plutarch and Lucian.
313
The Spread of Christianity. The Christian Religion a Religio
Illicita. Hadrian's Toleration of the Christians. Rescript
of Hadrian to the Proconsul Fundanus. The Christian
Apologists. .
322