| Historical
Record |
Year
Month |
Historical
Fiction |
| 128 |
| Hadrian is seriously ill. |
Jan |
Epistle
048 - Disquieting Thoughts |
| Hadrian sails south to Carthage.
The drought ends with his arrival. |
Feb |
Epistle
049 - Purple Reign |
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Mar |
Epistle
050 - The Heart of Numidia
Epistle
051 - Stables of the Palatine |
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Apr |
Epistle
052 - Hadrian's Deprivation
Epistle
053 - Transcripts and Categories |
| The Senate bestows on Hadrian
the title of "Father of the Country". |
May |
The
Oratory of Favorinus
Epistle
054 - In the Wake of a Paradox
Epistle
055 - Father of the Country
Epistle
056 - First Night with Hadrian |
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Jun |
Epistle
057 - A Place in the World
Epistle
058 - Hard Resolution |
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Jul |
Epistle
059 - Announcements and Pronouncements
Epistle
060 - Keeping Company |
| The Imperial Tour begins with
its arrival in Corinth.
The Isthmian Games take place with Hadrian and his
entourage in attendance. |
Aug |
Epistle
061 - The Stallions' Ride
Epistle
062 - The Tour Begins
Epistle
063 - On the Isthmus
The
Isthmian Odes |
| Arrival at Athens, through
Megara. Hadrian and Antinous are initiated into
the Mysteries of Eleusis.
|
Sep |
Epistle
064 - On Grief
Epistle
065 - The Eleusian Mysteries |
| |
Oct |
Epistle
066 - A Playful Wager
The Gospel
of Alexander |
| Nov 27: Antinous is 18 years old.
|
Nov |
Epistle
067 - The Delights of Athens
Epistle
068 - On Receiving |
| The court visits with Epictetus.
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Dec |
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129 |
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Jan |
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Feb |
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| The court sets sail for Asia
Minor after spending the winter in Athens. |
Mar |
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| Arrival at Ephesos (near Selcuk,
Turkey). The town erects a statue to 16 year-old Fuscus. |
|
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| Arrival at Miletus (Balat,
Turkey). The court meets with Dionysius of Miletus. |
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Arrival at Tralles (Aydin,
Turkey).
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| Arrival at Anatolia (Antalya,
Turkey), in the region of Pisidia/Pamphylia. |
|
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| Arrival at Phaselis (Tekirova,
Turkey). |
|
|
| Antinous returns to Claudiopolis
(Bolu,
Turkey) as the star of the Imperial court, after having
left six years before. |
|
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| Arrival at Laodiceia (Ladik,
Turkey). The court meets with Polemon of Laodiceia. |
Apr |
|
| The court travels south from
Trapezus (Trabzon,
Turkey) into the mountains of Phrygia (the region
of Cappadocia).
|
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| The entourage visits the tomb
of Alcibiades at Melissa (Kinalitas,
Turkey). |
|
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| Arrival at Patara (Yazicik,Turkey). |
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| Arrival at Synnada (Afyon, Turkey).
The Boar hunt represented on the Arch of Constantine
tondo takes place. |
May |
|
| The court arrives at Antioch,
which is used as a base of operations to tour Syria.
|
Jun |
|
| Hadrian and his young male
favorites climb Mt. Casius, to the Temple of Zeus
located at the top to watch the sunrise. While the
priest is making a sacrifice, lighting strikes killing
both the sacrificial victim and the priest. |
Jul |
|
| The entourage travels for Cappadocia
and Armenia. Hadrian reviews the legions at Melitene. |
|
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| The court arrives at Samosata
(Samsat,
Turkey, in the region of Cilicia),
at the Parthian border, and Hadrian meets with an
embassy from the Persian King Osroes. Hadrian restores
to the absent Parthian emperor his daughter who had
been captured by Trajan. This solidifies the peace
treaty of six years earlier. |
Aug |
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Sep |
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| The waters of the Nile do
not rise to the level necessary in order to irrigate
the fields of the Nile Valley. |
Oct |
|
| Returning from the Parthian
border, Hadrian's court spends the winter months
in Antioch.
Nov 27: Antinous is 19 years old. |
Nov |
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| Brief foray to Gerasa, where the
inhabitants erect a great triumphal arch to Hadrian. |
Dec |
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|
130 |
| Hadrian sets out with his immediate
circle for Arabia. A quick caravan across the desert
brings them to Palmyra. |
Jan |
|
| The entourage continues to
Damascus and then to Petra. |
Feb |
|
| The entourage turns back West,
crosses the Jordan and enters Jerusalem, perhaps in
time for the Passover. |
Mar |
|
| Hadrian begins his examination
of the Jewish religion and begins making reforms,
trying to bring it into harmony with the rest of Rome.
|
Apr |
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May |
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| Hadrian refounds Jerusalem
as a Roman colony with a specially-imported Greek
population. Its new name is Aelia Capitolina. |
Jun |
|
| The women sail for Alexandria.
The men depart Judea down the military road from
Gaza.
Arrival at Pelusium, on the eastern tip of the
Nile Delta. Sacrifice and pledge to rebuild the
ruined tomb of Pompey the Great. |
Jul |
|
| Arrival at Alexandria. Hadrian
and Sabina attend a vast number of official functions.
Hadrian restores the city, founds a new library
in the Caesareum, discusses philosophy at the Museum,
and starts a campaign to attract sophists such as
Dionysius of Miletus and Polemon of Laodikeia to
the Museum. |
Aug |
|
| Slanders behind Hadrian's
back, some relating to Antinous, causes the court's
removal to Canopus (a pleasure resort). |
|
|
| Antinous cuts his hair. The curls
are shorn into more military cut appropriate for manhood. |
Sep |
|
| Eager to re-assert his divine
persona, Hadrian sets out for the Libyan desert
to hunt the Maurosian Lion. |
|
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| The entourage arrives in Heliopolis
where an Egyptian priest, Pancrates, inititates
Hadrian with rites of Sacerdotal magic. |
Oct |
|
| The court sets sail up the Nile
as the waters of the inundation begin to subside —
below their normal levels of 14 to 16 cubits for a
second year in a row. |
|
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| Pause at Babylon to inspect the
Legion XXII Deiotariana. |
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| The flotilla of the court stops
at Gizeh
to contemplate the pyramids. |
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| Arrival at Memphis and a visit
to the sanctuary of the sacred Apis bull. |
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| Arrival at Fayoum and the world-famous
Labyrinth. |
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| Arrival at Arsinoe and inspection
of the sacred crocodile. |
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| Arrival at Herakleopolis and witness
of the ichneumon. |
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Arrival at Hermopolis Magna
(modern-day Al
Ashmunin) and a visit to the temple of Thoth.
Oct 22, the festival of the Nile and "celebration"
of the death of Osiris two days later. But there
is no celebration this year, after 2 years of a
deficient flood. |
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| Oct 28: At Hir-wer (close to the
modern-day village Ash
Shaykh Ibada), just north (downstream) of Hermopolis
Magna, the body of Antinous is discovered. |
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| Oct 30: Hadrian founds the city
of Antinoopolis on the banks of the Nile where the
body of Antinous was found. |
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| Nov 18: The entourage continues
up the Nile, arriving at their final destination,
Thebes (modern-day Luxor).
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Nov |
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Dec |
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