![]() ![]() Trajan begins a campaign of conquest in Parthia that dominates his reign. Hadrian marries into the family and is assisted by the empress, Plotina. Trajan tentatively chooses him as a successor. Trajan is uncertain of Hadrian's value and skills, but Hadrian proves himself in the Dacian Wars with acts of valor. Nerva dies, and Hadrian is the first to tell his cousin of his accession. While serving in Spain, Domitian dies and is succeeded by the elderly Nerva, who takes Hadrian's cousin Trajan as his adopted son. There he lives a life of debauchery, until he returns to active duty in the Pyrenees. ![]() During the waning days of Domitian's reign, he goes to Rome and works several years as a judge. He studies rhetoric, Greek, philosophy and medicine in Spain and Greece, and trains as an army officer. Hadrian is born in Italica to a Spanish family. ![]() He intends to give his adopted grandson a true history of his life and reign. When Hadrian begins his letter to Marcus Aurelius, he is an old man dying from heart disease. It details the struggles and triumphs of a leader who made peace his central objective. The narrative is told in a letter written by the protagonist to his successor, Marcus Aurelius. Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yournecar is a classic historical novel detailing the life and reign of the Roman emperor Hadrian, as told from the first-person point-of-view of Hadrian himself. ![]()
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