Hadrian
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This item from the Guardian is genuinely interesting … here’s the first bit: Amateur cavers have mapped a vast network of tunnels underneath Hadrian’s Villa outside Rome, leading archaeologists to radically revise their views of one of ancient Rome’s most imposing imperial retreats. Lowering themselves through light shafts found in fields around the 120-hectare (296-acre)…
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Image via Wikipedia ante diem vii idus quinctilias ludi Apollinares (day 4) 597 B.C. — a suggested date for Thales‘ eclipse (or so it was thought in several 19th century (and earlier) sources 118 A.D. — Hadrian finally arrives in Rome as emperor
rogue classicism 