Happy 1948th birthday, Hadrian! This year, I decided to cook Cato the Elder’s recipe for Libum (sweet cheesecake) as Hadrian’s birthday cake. Libum (original recipe from LacusCurtius): Bray 2 pounds of cheese thoroughly in a mortar; when it is thoroughly macerated, add 1 pound of wheat flour, or, if you wish the cake to be more dainty,…

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28.02.2024

Early AD 124 – Hadrian spends the winter in Nicomedia, tours Bithynia and meets Antinous (#Hadrian1900) FOLLOWING HADRIAN

After sailing along the southern Black Sea coast, possibly visiting the Pontic towns of Amisus, Sinope and Amastris (see here), Hadrian is thought to have spent the winter of 123/4 in Nicomedia or possibly Byzantium. Nicomedia was the capital of the dual province of Pontus et Bithynia in what is now Izmit in northern Turkey.…

Following Hadrian

12.06.2024

Spring AD 124 – Hadrian visits Thrace and founds Hadrianopolis (#Hadrian1900) FOLLOWING HADRIAN

After touring the province of Bithynia, where Hadrian may have first encountered Antinous (see here), the Emperor crossed the Sea of Marmara to Thrace. Accompanying him was the renowned sophist and teacher of rhetoric, Antonius Polemon. Polemon chronicled this journey in his Physiognomica, a physiognomy treatise later preserved in a 14th-century Arabic translation. In his writings, Polemon recalls, "I was a companion of the great…

Following Hadrian

19.07.2024

Summer AD 124 – Hadrian tours Asia, visits Cyzicus and Troy and hunts a she-bear (#Hadrian1900) FOLLOWING HADRIAN

In the late spring of AD 124, Hadrian departed from Thrace (see here) and travelled back to Asia Minor, this time to the Roman province of Asia. He was accompanied by the sophist Antonius Polemo and his "soldiers and carriages." The imperial party's first destination was the peninsula of Cyzicus on the southern shore of…

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Felicem diem natalem, Hadriane! 🎂 FOLLOWING HADRIAN

Early AD 124 – Hadrian spends the winter in Nicomedia, tours Bithynia and meets Antinous (#Hadrian1900) FOLLOWING HADRIAN

Spring AD 124 – Hadrian visits Thrace and founds Hadrianopolis (#Hadrian1900) FOLLOWING HADRIAN

Summer AD 124 – Hadrian tours Asia, visits Cyzicus and Troy and hunts a she-bear (#Hadrian1900) FOLLOWING HADRIAN

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