Italicaancient town, Spain
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association with Hadrian Hadrian
...emperor Trajan, and the other, Acilius Attianus, later served as prefect of the emperor’s Praetorian Guard early in Hadrian’s own reign. In 90, Hadrian visited Spain probably for the first time. At Italica he received some kind of military training and also developed a fondness for hunting that he kept for the rest of his life. Hadrian did not seem to care much for the life of Italica. He...
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history of Spain Spain
...Romans pursued a policy of deliberate “Romanization” of their Spanish provinces, at least for the first two centuries of their presence there. Scipio left some of his wounded veterans at Italica (Santiponce, near Sevilla) in 206; the Roman Senate allowed a settlement of 4,000 offspring of Roman soldiers and native women to be established at Carteia (near Algeciras) in 171; and...
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Roman emperor (ad 117–138), the emperor Trajan’s nephew and successor, who was a cultivated admirer of Greek civilization and who unified and consolidated Rome’s vast empire.
The family of Hadrian came from southern Spain. They were not, however, of native Spanish origin but rather of settler stock. Hadrian’s forebears left Picenum in Italy for Spain about 250 years before his birth. Hadrian himself may have been born in Rome. There is nothing particularly Spanish about Hadrian. He bears the stamp of education in cosmopolitan Rome.
Hadrian’s father died in 85, and the son was entrusted to the care of two men: one, a cousin of his father, later became the emperor Trajan, and the other, Acilius Attianus, later served as prefect of the emperor’s Praetorian Guard early in Hadrian’s own reign. In 90, Hadrian visited Spain probably for the first time. At Italica he received some kind of military training and also developed a fondness for hunting that he kept for the rest of his life. Hadrian did not seem to care much for the life of Italica. He remained there for only a few years, and, when he returned to Spain as emperor, he avoided Italica altogether.
When Trajan was consul in 91, Hadrian began to follow the traditional career of a Roman senator, advancing through a conventional series of posts. He was military tribune with three Roman legions. In about 95 he served with the Legion II Adjutrix in the province of Upper Moesia, on the Danube...
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