I need information on Ancient Rome's Emperor?

Question

information on Hadrian (A.D. 117-138) Roman Emperor. I need 10 things about him. (Example: Personality traits,careers, family, place of bith, and other important things he did). I also need a couple of sentences explainining that thing.
EXAMPLE:
1) Birthday- January 24, 76.Hadrian's bith place was in Rome. Hadrian's actual place of birth was, however, unimportant, since it was one's patria which was crucial.


That's all I need. PLEASE HELP ME :D

Also if u can't find anything about him wat about Antoninus Pius. Anything about those two would be fine. But PLEASE be specific :)

Answer 1

Hadrian was born on January 24, 76. Where he saw the light of day was, even in antiquity, matter for debate. Italica, in Hispania Baetica, was the birthplace of Trajan and was also considered that of Hadrian. But the HA reports that he was born in Rome, and that seems the more likely choice, since it is the more unexpected. The actual place of one's birth was, however, unimportant, since it was one's patria which was crucial. Hadrian's ancestors had come to Spain generations before, from the town of Hadria in Picenum, at the end of the Second Punic War. Italica's tribus, to which Hadrian belonged, was the Sergia. His father, P. Aelius Afer, had reached the praetorship by the time of his death in 85/86, his mother, Domitia Paulina, came from a distinguished family of Gades, one of the wealthiest cities in the empire. His sister Paulina married Servianus, who played a significant role in Hadrian's career. Trajan was the father's cousin; when Afer died, Trajan and P. Acilius Attianus, likewise of Italica, became Hadrian's guardians.[[4]]

At the age of about ten, Hadrian went to Italica for the first time (or returned, if he had been there earlier in his childhood), where he remained for only a brief time. He then returned to the capital and soon began a rapid rise through the cursus honorum; he was a military tribune of three different legions in consecutive years, a series of appointments which clearly marked him for a military career, and reached the consulate as a suffect at the age of 32, the earliest possible under the principate. At Trajan's death, he was legate of the province of Syria, with responsibility for the security of the east in the aftermath of Trajan's Parthian War.

His career as a privatus follows:
decemvir stlitibus iudicandis
sevir turmae equitum Romanorum
praefectus urbi feriarum Latinarum
trib. militum legionis II Adiutricis Piae Fidelis (95, in Pannonia inferior)
trib. militum legionis V Macedonicae (96, in Moesia inferior)
trib. militum legionis XXII Primigeniae Piae Fidelis (97, in Germania superior)
quaestor (101)
ab actis senatus
tribunus plebis (105)
praetor (106)
legatus legionis I Minerviae Piae Fidelis (106, in Germania inferior)
legatus Augusti pro praetore Pannoniae inferioris (107)
consul suffectus (108)
septemvir epulonum (before 112)
sodalis Augustalis (before 112)
archon Athenis (112/13)
legatus Syriae (117)

Hadrian was born in Italica or in Rome to a well-established family which had originated in Picenum in Italy and had subsequently settled in Italica, Hispania Baetica (originally Hispania Ulterior). He was a first cousin once removed of his predecessor Trajan (a grandson of Hadrian's father's sister). Trajan never officially designated a successor, but, according to his wife, Pompeia Plotina, Trajan named Hadrian emperor immediately before his death. However, Trajan's wife was well-disposed toward Hadrian, and he may well have owed his succession to her.

Answer 2

Go to Wikipedia and look him up or google Hadrian.

What I do know is that he was an excellent leader and very well-traveled. He decided to end Roman expansion by building a wall in Britain which is now known as Hadrian's Wall.

He was married but never had children with his wife. He did have affairs with other women and had a love affair with a younger man. After this young man died from drowning, Hadrian erected statues commemorating his young lover.

Hadrian was also into Greek culture. He held Greek games and sported a beard and moustache (the Roman style was to be clean-shaven).

Answer 3

Hadrian had a wall built in Britain. It was called 'Hadrian's Wall' and it was intended to keep back the barbarians.