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<p>[QUOTE="Curtisimo, post: 3726659, member: 83845"]Thanks for all the kind words and for sharing all of your fantastic Hadrian coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am not as familiar with provincial types so I was very interested to see your fantastic example of the personified Nile, [USER=82194]@dadams[/USER] . Very cool.</p><p><br /></p><p>I figured I might as well share a couple of relevant(ish) photos related to Hadrian and his travels from my own wanderings over the years.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">..............................</p><p><br /></p><p>As mentioned in the OP, Hadrian was responsible for completing the Temple of Olympian Zeus at Athens that was started by the Tyrants Hippias and Hypparchos around ca. 520 BC... it only took 638 years to finish <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. It was the largest temple in Greece when it was completed. I have seen it in person and the scale of the extant standing columns is mind blowing.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]999149[/ATTACH]</p><p>Here is a photo I took while in Athens a few years ago. There are only 15 of the original 104 columns still standing.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]999150[/ATTACH]</p><p>This is known as Hadrian's Arch and is near the Temple of Olympian Zues. Apparently, it was part of the complex of buildings that Hadrian had built around the completed temple. The Acropolis is in the background.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]999151[/ATTACH]</p><p>Here is a photo that was taken in October of 1839 that shows the Temple of Zues, Hadrian's Arch and the Acropolis. Look how sparsely populated Athens was at this time (around 20 years after independence from the Ottomans). This is one of the most densely built up parts of Athens today.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">..............................</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course there is the obligatory photos of Hadrian's Villa. It is an unbelievably great place to visit and has been almost deserted both of the times I've been there. I highly recommend it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hadrian was known to have recreated places from his travels in his villa. The center photo below was intended to reference the Nile landscape near the Egyptian town of Canopus east of Alexandria. Does anyone know if any of the buildings were modeled on places in Africa? My research hasn't turned up any such references.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]999152[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]999153[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]999154[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">..............................</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p>Finally just for fun here are a couple of Hadrian related photos from Rome.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]999157[/ATTACH]</p><p>The Pons Aelius (now called the Ponte Sant'Angelo) is a bridge that Hadrian had constructed that leads to his Mausoleum. So as a bridge engineer I am finding an excuse to shoehorn this in here... love this bridge.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]999158[/ATTACH]</p><p>This is the room inside Hadrian's Mausoleum that his ashes were actually laid to rest in. I don't think anyone knows what happened to them but I imagine that barbarians may have been involved with ensuring the Tiber River was Hadrian's final resting place <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]999159[/ATTACH]</p><p>A model of what Hadrian's Mausoleum looked like in antiquity.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]999160[/ATTACH]</p><p>His mausoleum later became a palace for the popes. This is a Renaissance painting of Hadrian in the rooms above where his ashes would have been. Hadrian was a popular emperor during the Renaissance.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Curtisimo, post: 3726659, member: 83845"]Thanks for all the kind words and for sharing all of your fantastic Hadrian coins. I am not as familiar with provincial types so I was very interested to see your fantastic example of the personified Nile, [USER=82194]@dadams[/USER] . Very cool. I figured I might as well share a couple of relevant(ish) photos related to Hadrian and his travels from my own wanderings over the years. [CENTER]..............................[/CENTER] As mentioned in the OP, Hadrian was responsible for completing the Temple of Olympian Zeus at Athens that was started by the Tyrants Hippias and Hypparchos around ca. 520 BC... it only took 638 years to finish :eek:. It was the largest temple in Greece when it was completed. I have seen it in person and the scale of the extant standing columns is mind blowing. [ATTACH=full]999149[/ATTACH] Here is a photo I took while in Athens a few years ago. There are only 15 of the original 104 columns still standing. [ATTACH=full]999150[/ATTACH] This is known as Hadrian's Arch and is near the Temple of Olympian Zues. Apparently, it was part of the complex of buildings that Hadrian had built around the completed temple. The Acropolis is in the background. [ATTACH=full]999151[/ATTACH] Here is a photo that was taken in October of 1839 that shows the Temple of Zues, Hadrian's Arch and the Acropolis. Look how sparsely populated Athens was at this time (around 20 years after independence from the Ottomans). This is one of the most densely built up parts of Athens today. [CENTER]..............................[/CENTER] Of course there is the obligatory photos of Hadrian's Villa. It is an unbelievably great place to visit and has been almost deserted both of the times I've been there. I highly recommend it. Hadrian was known to have recreated places from his travels in his villa. The center photo below was intended to reference the Nile landscape near the Egyptian town of Canopus east of Alexandria. Does anyone know if any of the buildings were modeled on places in Africa? My research hasn't turned up any such references. [ATTACH=full]999152[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]999153[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]999154[/ATTACH] [CENTER].............................. [/CENTER] Finally just for fun here are a couple of Hadrian related photos from Rome. [ATTACH=full]999157[/ATTACH] The Pons Aelius (now called the Ponte Sant'Angelo) is a bridge that Hadrian had constructed that leads to his Mausoleum. So as a bridge engineer I am finding an excuse to shoehorn this in here... love this bridge. [ATTACH=full]999158[/ATTACH] This is the room inside Hadrian's Mausoleum that his ashes were actually laid to rest in. I don't think anyone knows what happened to them but I imagine that barbarians may have been involved with ensuring the Tiber River was Hadrian's final resting place :(. [ATTACH=full]999159[/ATTACH] A model of what Hadrian's Mausoleum looked like in antiquity. [ATTACH=full]999160[/ATTACH] His mausoleum later became a palace for the popes. This is a Renaissance painting of Hadrian in the rooms above where his ashes would have been. Hadrian was a popular emperor during the Renaissance.[/QUOTE]
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