“built by and for one of the most powerful men in history…” — The Daily Stoic at 6:20
“built by and for one of the most powerful men in history, a man of enormous ego and enormous vanity. Hadrian, when he had this built in 139 AD, he said to his architect, make it bigger and more impressive than Augustus's. And indeed, it rivals not just Augustus, but it rivals some of the Egyptian pharaohs. And it…”
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