Hadrian - The Restless Emperor #14 Roman History Documentary Series
Hadrian… the restless emperor or, less flatteringly, the absent emperor. Hadrian is best remembered for the monuments he built; not least of these was Hadrian's wall in northern England; it stands today as an evocative symbol of Roman power.
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Narration by: Alexander Dobby
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Intro: 0:00
Early Life: 0:36
Tribunus Laticlavius: 4:13
Optimus Princeps: 6:25
The Parthian Expedition: 17:02
The New Emperor: 20:43
The Four Ex-Consuls: 25:52
Hadrians Buildings: 29:42
Hadrians Travels: 32:24
To Britannia: 34:26
To The East: 36:22
Back To Rome: 44:43
To Africa: 46:39
To Athens: 49:43
Death on the Nile: 52:45
The Bar Kokhba Revolt: 54:43
Succession: 57:06
Legacy: 1:02:43
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Hadrian is the rpg player who travels through 100% of the map to complete all side quests
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"I'm going to make the flood look like a fucking joke" ---Hadrian
Historian Dovahhatty approved
Emperor Hadrian deserves a Good Movie, big production, big Budget with the Best actors.
True femboy kino
To destroy his image as they destroyed Alexander's? 😂 These "big productions" always appeal to masses and oversimplify everything making a comic characters out of the greatest heroes...
and not a movie created by the small hats. I want something truthful
Built things, executed senators, and had sex with young Greek men. Very exciting stuff.
I was about to write the same thing. Same for Trajan. Romanians made some movies, one or two including he character of Trajan, but more is needed. If I could, I would make a whole series about those 2 guys. Caesar, Caesar and more Caesar... he was not the only great one.
The Arch of Hadrian was built in Jerash, Jordan to honour the emperor! It remains intact to this day and it is considered one of the best kept Roman structures in the world.
a second monument(i dunno if it was an arch) existed on the other side of the jordan river, near beth shean
Memoirs of Hadrian is one of the most profound books I have ever read. If you enjoyed this phenomenal video, you need to read that book.
Thank You i Will look it up
@FSS2000 Yes, that book.
Oooh I gotta get that ✅
Thank you for the suggestion
@@boom7star731 Doesn't entail the first bit or any sort of naming iirc, but Hadrian's disdain for Jews is pretty apparent in the book, but only shows when dealing with a particularly brutal and difficult to defeat Jewish uprising or two led by a man who claimed to be the Messiah.
This is hands down one of the best roman history channels, keep up the good work
I appreciate the kind words, I'll keep them coming ;)
I just now found this channel and I love Greek/Roman History. Do you also watch Thersites the Hisorian? That has been my favorite History channel. This video is top notch though.
@@Wallyworld30 yes its great, i love his byzantine emperor series
@@TheSPQRHistorian please do one on heratio and ancient roman paganism before greek influence
Thanks for watching the video and for the recent support, it's greatly appreciated!
I love this channel, ive watched every single video.
just keep them coming man!
A video about my favourite emperor by SPQR, yes please!
Thanks Daniel, appreciate ya!
Your videos are bloody amazing, it's been far you long 😁
The part where Hadrian keeps selecting handsome dilettantes as his successors and the senate is just glaring at him going "we SEEE what you're doing here" needs its own skit
I'm so glad somebody on youtube is covering parts of rome besides the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Thank you very much. This is a great video. The length is perfect, too.
This is an offering to the algorithm. Awesome channel.
Appreciate ya 😉
I can understand that the Jews like any people wanted independence, but the Romans were incredibly benevolent with them. the Romans allowed the Jews to freely practice their religion, Jewish laws were part of the legislation of the province and they were allowed to preserve their traditions. Considering the time, Rome was very generous.
in the past no man asked "why Spartacus wanted independence if he was well fed and not in mines?" or "why occupied nation rebelled against their new very generous masters?" But people like them will never understand you, and people like you will never understand them
jew is religion. not a nation
Are you fucking insane.. The Romans was cruel..
@@sidjoosin6549 he was a slave it is perfectly logical that the slaves want to fight for their freedom, the jews were treated as citizens of the empire they were allowed to maintain their religion and traditions
@@KaelVidos20 Look here are 2 different world perceptions - words "you allowed to maintain ...." -for one point is either insult or argument for rebel and fight to the death; -for another is argument to NOT to rebel and live happily. ==== second one is modern one, in the past reasons for resist oppression was obviuos - to be free and NOT to resist was obviuos - fear. Spartacus was gladiator, it is like sport star * 2 + your sweat collected and sold to your fan club
Hadrian only has two moods: -Chill and sensible art loving emperor -Warlord type who razes cities and massacre without mercy
Well ain't one fellow is perfect. Hadrian is that type of emperor who in a single day could order 'secret' death warrants and mass genocide, while in the same time rebuild many damaged buildings for the sake of honoring their original builder's legacy (and not for personal agrandizement) and being that one guy who always likes to travel in order to upgrade the provinces and improve lives of its citizens. But Hadrian's good and competent behaviour stands out from the two, for it was who Hadrian is and preferred to be.
he was an anti social homosexual (pitcher) what do you expect for his good acts (you know the big one) I can overlook these flaws
@Sjakalen come now we hate him because he was a fruit
Artists and intellectuals are always wiping out whole segments of the popualtion no matter the time
Duality of man😞😞😞
This doc was amazing! Why doesn't this channel have 1 million subscribers yet????? Keep on the excellent work: you have with me a loyal subscriber.
Thank you Alessandro! I appreciate you
Agreed
The best emperor of them all! Way ahead of his time.
Yeah I agree, he was ahead of his time. Perhaps to far ahead so his contemporaries could not appreciate him
Judea delenda est. R.I.P. Hadrian, you truly were the best of us
How is your channel still so small? You are really putting out great amounts of quality whenever you upload and yet you still have a small amount of subs. I really hope you grow get the appreciation you deserve!
Yes it's fantastic
We all need a hadrian in our lives
His wife said he was a monster didn't you hear that in the video
@@JD-rn1rj haha his wife mad because he didnt have a kid with her probably
@@davidibe1934 lol idk
I guess if you don't mind having a pedophile around your kids and family members .
As in "a sugar-daddy"?
I’ve been waiting for this! I adore the clean map animation.
Thanks a lot Malay! I appricate your videos :)
@@TheSPQRHistorian I rarely upload videos now but thank you haha. Suffice to say, you got potential!
Your videos are amazing😍🔥 well documented and narrated, they are a joy to watch. Sincere thanks to the team behind this fantastic channel
*build numerous buildings and monuments* *Your most famous accomplishment is a wall in the far of reaches of the empire* I wonder how he would feel about that.
One of the best emperors to be sure!
Welcome back!! Love the video length 😁👍
Thanks! Yeah Hadrian deserved a longer video ;)
Happy Birthday, Emperor Hadrian! Hail!
This is by far the best biography of Hadrian I’ve heard. It defines his personality so that you can see why his wife would have called him a “monster “. Though for me, his prickly and acid comments describing Pompey’s Tomb as “pitiful for one so rich in temples” is strangely endearing. I understand him with his hot mercurial Latin temper, and restlessness. I also share his need to grow a beard to hide facial blemishes. I am curious about the creases on his ear lobes as being modern day predictable warnings of stroke and cardio vascular disease. I’ve read many of the written biographies and looking forward to any new research. The Memoirs of Hadrian movie adaptation seems to have permanently scrubbed, so we’ll not see Antonio Banderas in the title role any time soon….pity.
Yes spot on. The creases correspond to cardio vascular disease and the blood flow from his nostrils, one of the items of evidence to how he died.
he definitly knew how to properly handle the semitic threat in the east
Incredible video dude,congrats!
Outstanding work! 👍
Thank you for your video! It’s great
Amazing Video keep the great Work
Great that your back
Thanks Brian! I've been slowly working on this behemoth of a video for a long time :)
HE SAILED FOR JUDEA FOLLOWED BY 12 LEGIONS
Was just thinking about Trajan and the height of human civilization then *BOOM: his successor!* 🦅
Too be honest the height of Roman Civilization only haltered in my opinion after the end of the Tetrarchy.
@@oligultonn either the Crisis of the Third Century or the first sack of Rome. Constantine actually did a very good job of maintaining stability and progress within Roman Civilization, certainly far better than the Tetrarchy, a regime which absolutely guaranteed civil conflict, ever did.
CHADrian was rewarded by THE LORD for his deed and so was rome
Actually, it was emperors Hadrian (117-138), and Antoninus Pius (138-161) who presided over the apex/pinnacle of Pax Romana/the Roman Empire.
@@montolonzo3836 coming from chongo-longo; Pfff 😂
Amazing Loved it
This is too good to only have 12k views. This is some next level content
I wish that there would be a good studio and director who can make a awesome series that shows, Constantine, hadrian, Justinian, and other great emperors.
Thank you for coming back!
Thank you Aleksa, for sticking around :D
Based Hadrian
Wow amazing video 👏 wish there was one such long video for every emperor. Would love to see one about Antoninus!
Glad you liked it Antonio! There is so much to say about Hadrian so the video ended up being a lot longer than the previous ones :D Currently working on the Antoninus Pius video, along with a couple of other videos :)
Mmm love that Imperator Rome soundtrack
Please do more videos like this it was amazing so much information
Very nice and informative video, thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very cool historical overview of Emperor Hadrian.
Alexander Doddy is the best!
really great video very thorough and informative. I'm eagerly waiting for the Marcus Aurelius video
Yusssssss! Thank you for this!
Glad you like it!
Nice to see you back!
Thank you!
Love it, make more videos just like this one on all the proceedings emperor
Maybe one day but I've made a video on all previous emperors but I've improved with each video so their considerably worse quality - I might go back and improved them but now I will focus on the next couple of Emperors ;)
@@TheSPQRHistorian awesome man, so many people find roman history to be so fascinating but it's so long with so much information, it's like where do you even begin, videos like this really helps educate people about roman history and let them make their own judgment about what's good and bad
This is the best Roman history channel
Very nice documentary :)😊😉👍
Thank you for great videos ! I liked how you brought up that Tibrius might have protected Caligula from Sejanus by invitation to Capri and telling that Caligula fought as unknown Gladiator, other documents do not mention these things and the tale of Scaeva ! Greetings from Finland !
Excellent video
Hadrian the Based
Fascinating 🖖🏼
This channel is incredible, the quality of the production is brilliant and the videos are perfect in length and easily digestible. Keep it up
This guy has the best timing for these videos. Disregarding his very good voice and presentation - all of us are THIRSTY for more Rome after Dovahatty's "Unbiased history". And now that the series has ended - this is gonna get a lot of thirsty Roman fanboys from that alone
Eh, just watched the other vids... not the same without the dude doing this voice. Honestly, they're good, but not as good as this man. Please do more videos with him!
If the SPQR Historian needs a narrator with lots of emotion and inflections the same as this one, i could do it. I'm a pretty skilled orator. Would love if you contacted me, though!
Hadrian sailed for Judea with 12 legions...
I don't know why I haven't found this channel before but Im glad I have now. It's right up there with listening to Mike Duncans history of Rome and I'll be here for the rest of your videos.
My favorite are Hadrian's adventures in Judea.
I know of an Austrian painter you'd like.
Hadrian's policy towards the Jews was his biggest mistake, which led to hundreds of thousands of deaths.
@@patrickhows1482 >mistake >which led to hundreds of thousands of deaths. what mistake worked out perfectly in my view
Your voice is as smooth and entertaining as Matt Berry. Great stuff man, love the content!
Holy shit! Nice work!
Thank you very much!
I was assigned Hadrian for a school presentation on Roman emperors, and I must say, I've had a great time reading about him.
Lucky you!
I don’t know if this is this mans real voice or an audio trick but he’s definitely making a good documentary narrator
The Narrator Is called Alexander Dobby, and yes he is really good :)
Really? I thought he was a bit dreadful for a narrator. Kind of a high, nasaly voice with odd inflection. Not that there’s anything wrong with that … just not the best for listening to for over an hour imo
Love the video.
Thanks Bug!
@@TheSPQRHistorian no worries. They’re really well produced. Keep em coming !! 😁
I'm a History student and Hadrian's reign would be perfect for my thesis because he is my favorite Roman Emperor plus other topics like Ancient Rome's relationship with China and India! Greetings from Mexico!
Gotta sleep now, but oh boy will tomorrow be a good morning
Hope you had a good nights sleep ;D
You're back! Thought maybe you'd taken up residence in Elysium. Welcome back amigo. Roma Victrix.
Not in Elysium yet! It's just been a crazy couple of months; bought a house, and had a baby etc. I'm trying to figure out a good balance between work/family/KZhead Happy to see you're sticking around :D
@@TheSPQRHistorian Damn congrats man! That's a lot to balance. Even more badass of you to deliver an hour long Hadrian doc. Best to you and your family.
This narrator is superb 👌
Excellent
00:42 Rome: Total War - A New Family Member notification noise. *I have the ears of a fox.*
You are correct :)
54:39 Europa universalis IV Revolt sound
@@td6460 It’s a 5 second noise that CA probably forgot they even made, I don’t think it’s worth an uproar.
IMO the combo/period between Trajan and Hadrian was the height of Roman Empire or "The Greatness of Rome". The fact that both were from outside of Rome and Italy both were chosen by the army and not put on the throne by the army were important. Both Trajan and Hadrian were great because they traveled throughout their empire, fought and led their men into battle but also understood the limits of the empire. Hadrian's wall and the pull out of Mesopotamia were critical to maintaining all the progress that had been made. Augustus gets all the cred for creating the role of Caesar based upon his grandfather but Trajan and Hadrian perfected the role. If Rome were fortunate to have 10 more emperors like these two we they wouldn't have needed to split the empire, they wouldn't have diluted the currency, they wouldn't have turned the army into primarily into foreign paid mercenaries, and likely they wouldn't have allowed the barbarian tribes to push into their northern border. Christianity may not have been a thing and we likely wouldn't have had the dark ages for 500 years.
More like between Trajan and Antoninus Pius.And it was during Pius reign that Romans reached absolute zenith of prosperity.
pulling out of mesopotamia was a mistake. trade through that region shouldve been enough to raise an additional legion and weakens persia
Hadrian: set in Rome. Preston: Hadrian, another province need our help.
One of my favourites
Yeah Hadrian is differently up there, one of the best if not THE best Roman Emperor
@@TheSPQRHistorian nah, Aurelian, Augustus and Diocletian are tied for 1st:)
Am emperor who did what no other emperor could do, keep things simple and do nothing extravagant or crazy.
Fantastic 🤴
Thank you
Thank you for announcing everytime the Historia Augusta is sourced. That thing is more tabloid than historical documentation.
Nice photos ;)
Welcome back
Thank you Francisco!
I love this narrator
I swear this channel is too small for this amazing quality.
Excellent work! Your voice also.
Thank you!
subscribed!
Thank you :)
Best videos for SPRS.
I mean The SPQR Historian is really,really quite good indeed but nothing hits quite like Dovahatty. Liked and Subscribed!
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Great job mate. Any chance of making your sources public for the future videos ?
Ditto. I'm curious to look into the sources as well as some info here in the video contradict public sources (re: his tour of Africa).
О,Адриан,насколько он противоречив и одновременно великолепен.Познакомился с ним впервые через книжку его мемуаров,написанной М.Юрсенар,впечатлило.Да за одну его виллу в Тиволи сохранившую для нас столько предметов античного искусства ему можно простить многое...А его невероятные путешествия по Римской империи до сих пор будоражат моё воображение.Пантеон и мавзолей Адриана,разве без них можно представить Рим?Юноша этот Антиной скорее всего сам покончил с собой,из-за невероятной любви к императору пожертвовал собой чтобы продлить его жизнь,омрачённую тяжёлым недугом.Возможно Антиной и подарил Адриану оставшиеся ему 8 лет жизни.Кстати,недуг императора был определён по его сохранившимся бюстам и записям античных историков,это крайне интересное расследование про болезнь сломившую властителя лучшей части тогдашнего мира,которая в наше время довольно хорошо контролируется и имея тогда те лекарства что мы используем сейчас он бы прожил гораздо дольше и не имел бы столь скверный характер,обусловленный его болезнью.
Still recognize as one ov the best emperors...
Hadrian was the best among Five good emperors
Such a lovely name HADRIAN
Even today in Greek books Andian mentioned numerous times 'cause he was a true philellene ( Friend of Greeks ). But who couldn't love Greece and the things that created in so early times. Stories to entertain the mind of audionnce of all ages. Thus the saying by Horace "Captive Greece captured her rude conqueror".
Greece went from Warbride to queen.
Great Uncle is not distantly related. The sibling of a grandparent is extended family. Not distant relative.
A note to the writer: There was no so called Spanish(lisping)accent at the time. Latin was the language of Italica. The Roman elite would mocked Hadrian for antiquarian speech pattern; not for lisping
My interest for Hadrian started with an anime about Roman bath houses.
I am glad the creator of this video did not take a stance regarding Hadrian's sexuality. There is so much misinformation online and in some books.
Was he gay?? Or bisexual?? I had no idea...
@@jamellfoster6029 he had a thing for little boys...
Wonderful. Was wondering if you could while giving the names of ancient places also tell us what they are called today. Tnx!
54:53 - 57:05 uhh hello based department
Hadrian did nothing wrong
As the Jews discovered to their cost, he may have liked arty-farty Greek stuff and pretty boys, but you fucked with Hadrian at your own peril.
he seems to be the man.
Y sevillano tambien, ole, ole ahi chiquillo.
Sí, y antes de que existiera Sevilla, todo un logro.
A few years ago, there was a guy on here "History with a twist of lime" was his name I think. He was sadly taken down for copyright issues I think, but he did a fantastically detailed complete history of rome, from its founding to its end. Please, I hope you consider doing something similar someday!
The idea has crossed my mind 🤔
@@TheSPQRHistorian A Herculean task, no doubt - but one I feel you may be capable of! For the longest time I thought myself alone but it turns out there's quite a cult reverence for his saga lol
Are his videos still up in youtube (re-uploaded by someone else)?
@@user-xn4fy5pq1d Not that I've seen, I do look occasionally but no joy so far
@@mikehatton7908 OH well then. I guess I will have to use the way back machine for this ( if it can work)