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Available content about Hadrian. Counts refer to the entries displayed on this page, not complete coverage of their life or reign.
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The High Empire AD 98 – 192 · 21
Part of Lost Roman Heroes · Matteo and Matthew Storm, 101 episodes
Part of Roman Emperors: Totalus Rankium
Hadrian scored out of ten across the show's fixed categories, which forces the awkward comparison between the builder and the man who crushed Bar Kokhba. Seventy-six minutes.
Part of The Ancients
With Rob Collins
Rob Collins on the fifth century at the wall, when the forts stayed occupied long after the pay stopped arriving. Seventy-five minutes on an ending that took generations.
Frances McIntosh on the daily round at the wall: rations, rotas, and local gods picked up on the spot and worshipped alongside the official ones. Seventy minutes treating the garrison as residents.
Part of Our Fake History
Hadrian has been celebrated as one of Rome's five good emperors, but his reputation is complicated by the mysterious death of his teenage lover, Antinous.
With Frances McIntosh
Fifty-one minutes on the build itself: between eleven and sixteen feet high depending on which side of the Irthing you stand, some eighty Roman miles across northern Britain, and still an open question what it was actually for.
Part of Ancient Warfare Podcast
The 1,900th anniversary episode, assuming the wall was begun in AD 122 and not 119. Forty-nine minutes of the panel arguing about the date and the purpose, both of which are genuinely unsettled.
Part of The Rest Is History
Antinous drowned in the Nile in AD 130 and Hadrian answered by making him a god, with temples, a city and coinage. Forty-nine minutes on grief exercised by someone with the power to enforce it.
With Jim Crow
Jim Crow on Housesteads, the auxiliary fort with the best-surviving latrines in Roman Britain. Forty-six minutes in which sanitation turns out to be the most talkative evidence on the site.
Part of Ithaca Bound · Andrew Schiestel on the Mediterranean, 2021 to 2022; only the Roman episodes are indexed
Part of The History of Rome
Duncan on the decision to stop expanding: Trajan's conquests abandoned, a wall across Britain and a palisade in Germany. Twenty-seven minutes on an empire choosing its own edges.
Part of Emperors of Rome
The nickname his fellow senators used, the beard nobody had worn, and a Spaniard who preferred Athens to Rome. Twenty-six minutes on an emperor who made his taste into policy.
Antinous, the drowning in the Nile, and a city founded for a dead boy. Twenty-six minutes on grief turned into an imperial cult with temples of its own.
With David Breeze
David Breeze on Bearsden near Glasgow, where the bath house and the latrine sewer survived well enough to show what the garrison ate. Twenty-five minutes.
Seventeen minutes on an accession that began with four consulars executed and a new emperor swearing he had not ordered it. The welcome was cooler than the word suggests.
Part of The Pax Romana Podcast
The provincial tours that took him away from Rome for more than half his reign. Seventeen minutes on governing by turning up.
Seventeen minutes on the wall as an object: eighty Roman miles of it, seventy-three of ours, a milecastle at every one of them, and a customs post as much as a defence.
Fourteen minutes on the four executions of 118 and the question the sources never settle: how much Hadrian knew, and how much he needed not to know.
Fourteen minutes on the last years: illness, a failed suicide attempt, and a succession arranged two deep so it would hold. It held for eighty years.
Part of Understanding Rome · Agnes Crawford, licensed guide in Rome
Part of Ancient Art Podcast (audio) · Art and culture of the ancient Mediterranean; only the Roman episodes are indexed
