Loved Margeurite Youcenar’s novel “Memoirs of Hadrian.” Helped get inside Hadrian’s skin. Even got me back into collecting ancient coins.

After all the personal accolades the gist of the lecture begins at 7:30. It is a good lecture.

Thank you for sharing! Hadrian is sorta my favorite. That was really informativ, interesting, clever and refreshing told. All in all - well done! Enjoyed it very much.

JVDEA DELENDA EST (c) Hadrian, the Chad Emperor

Fantastic lecture.

I've been to Rome and visited the Pantheon! Amazing!

Very interesting and entertaining. Thank you.

great conference.

I do not understand how can Hadrian be called "murderous"? I dont read much about the other emperors, but really! It was Rome, and it was Romans. He had to act quickly, or the others would have taken the emperorship from him --- and really!, he seems to have really fought for that. Why would he go like: OK, the first to arrive in Rome gets the crown! Come on. As for the last two killings --- that Fuscus wanted a coup, he tried to murder Hadrian!!! What do you when someone called Fuscus tries to be Emperor when you are in a terrible bad mood, slowly dying, at 62? You kill him. He was not a murderer. He was balancing the powers. That was a very difficult position to be sweet. Would'nt you!!

Good video but misleading title. There’s nothing about leadership or insights that you can use to get an edge. If you want to know more about Hadrian get the book Hadrian Memoirs by Marguerite Yourcenar!

I don’t think Antinous is messed up in the head. I hate that when researchers do research on Hadrian they neglect the tragic beauty of that story of the boy who knew Hadrian wouldn’t let him leave but in time he would be forced out, with I’m pretty sure not much to his name but as a mistress to the emperor. In that time, I feel like he made a sacrifice that I honestly think is very sad but beautiful in away. Antinous chose his fate without allowing others(including Hadrian) to chose it for him. I do think Hadrian made him out to believe he was a jewel to the world and from readings, it sounds like he was. He probably believed that he was the jewel to change the fate of Hadrian and the flooding Nile. He deserves to be recognized of being brave enough to take a risk and believe in something bigger then him and even if it wasn’t an accident , it’s kind of strange how things it all somehow worked out 😊 I love the story of the ruler Hadrian and his beautiful god Antinous. May their love live on and be shared with the world!

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Hadrian had an epic villa

Really really good lecture.Roman emperors were really special people and some were of great personality. I'd like to have a similar lecture on Augustus.

I wonder what he saw in Marcus Aurelius to name him his successer if Marcus was still a child at the time of proclaiming him..surely there would have been a multitude of young eligible men maybe in there early twenty's to choose as his successer..!! Was it a lot to do with maybe some kind of family or political ties that pushed him a lot towards Marcus..!!

Hadrian's sister. Was her name Adrianna? Just wondering. Trying to learn of his relatives. Thank you for this.

Mike Duncans podcast on the history of Rome is better in my view but a good presentation nevertheless, thank you

Why do ALL American events begin with at least two introducers? Everybody seems greedy for airtime.

Anyone want to hit me with the cliffnotes?

Why won't the camera person simply leave the room and stop distracting from the lecture?

Augustus does not mean reverend as it's understood today. Perhaps a better translation is revered one.

Someone needs to fire the camera man for the next one aha

49:51 lol

One of the four roman emperors spain gave to rome

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Good summary but no new information or new approach offered.

Learn from history.

What's with all the lip smacking? Need better editing.

One more thing: Gibbons should have been bouncing on branches, and eating bananas, and leaving serious, unbiased History to others. Tyrant? Oh come on.

My favorite sugar daddy

when talking about the Holy Land, Jews and things, PLEASE realise that only those from Juda/Judea were called Jews and had issues with Rome. North from there, the land was the old Kingdom of Israel, people were Samaritans, neutral or friendly to Rome, and are still here today in the Holy Land. Only Jews of Judea were killed or deported. Samaritans are Hebrews and children of Israel. They follow Moses and his Pentateuch, but are NOT Jews. In fact, it was the king of Juda, David, who stole the Ark from the original temple at Shechem, Samaria (modern Neopolis/Nabolus) and took it to his new town of Jerusalem, building a brand new temple for it. Noting this, you will better understand the Roman-Hebrew relationship, instead of just Roman-Jewish relationship

(42:51) 'He probably met Hadrian when he was about 16.' FBI! Open up!

Hadrian born in Rome? No, I don't think so.

I could have done a better job. He is not a good speaker.

The most historically consequential Hadrian legacy was the renaming of Judea to "Palestina", after the Philistines. The Philistines were the historic foes of the Hebrews and ceased to exist by that time, as they were assimilated, mostly within the Israelites. That "Palestinian" redesignation of the Judean nation and country, enforced by the Roman Emperors, resulted from their visceral hate for the Jews and their intention to obliterate the Jewish existence, like they did earlier with the Carthaginians. Omitting this historic fact from your presentation seems to me deliberate and misleading on purpose. There was a question from the audience to this effect, which was given weak answer.