Meaning of Hadrianic | Babel Free

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Of or relating to Hadrian (76–138), Roman emperor from 117 to 138.

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“The scattered bands of death-defying zealots who had fled to Egypt and Cyrene after the destruction of the second Temple, in order⟳ to continue⟳ their desperate resistance to Roman servitude, had reached Arabia also. Fugitives from the Hadrianic wars also probably found refuge in Arabia.”

“The reverse-types of the bronze coins issued at Athens under Hadrian, though they are admittedly inferior from the purely aesthetic point⟳ of view⟳ and receive⟳ but scant, if any, attention in books on Imperial art, are monuments of the greatest interest⟳ and importance for studying the history of art and for gauging the artistic mentality of the times; they would make⟳ an excellent starting-point for the study⟳ of art in Hadrianic Greece.”

“Archaism in Antiquity was never so varied as it is today, nor was it ever used in quite the same virtuoso-like way, but it does have⟳ a long history in Graeco-Roman art. Its principal flowering came in the late Hellenistic period and, especially, in Hadrianic art, but its roots, like⟳ so many other innovations in Greek art, are traceable to the period between 480 and 450 b.c., when it is quite apparent in the work⟳ of a group of Attic vase painters , of whom the foremost was the Pan Painter.”

“At Tauromenium, the Trajanic or Hadrianic reconstruction of the theatre was accompanied by the building of an odeion for performance on a smaller scale.”

“the "danger/time of danger" mentioned almost twenty times in Tannaitic literature, which according to Prof. Lieberman was the first stage⟳ of the Hadrianic persecutions before the "decrees of destruction" (gezeirot hashmad) during the Bar Kokhba rebellion.”

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