Welcome to Totalis Rankium. This week, Hadrian.

Hello and welcome to Rob Empress to tell us Rankium.

I am Jamie.

Hi, I'm Rob.

And we are ranking all the emperors from Augustus to Augustus.

And this is Hadrian.

Hadrian.

Yes, the third of the five good emperors.

Ah, so halfway through.

Yes, yeah.

Now, I know two things were Hadrian. Go on him. He had a beard. Yeah. And he built a patio near Scotland. Yes, he did those two things. Or a lot of garden improvements sort of stuff. Sort of general. A fence, I heard. Yeah, some sort of fence. Yes. patting a fencing. Yeah. Okay. Well, there you go. Well, that's for listening. Yeah. We'll see you next week. Should we go into a bit more detail? I suppose we should. I mean, you have spent a week researching. Yeah, yeah. He's an odd one is Hadrian? He is. Yeah. But we'll discuss that at the end.

So let's dive in with Hadrian's family.

His father was Publius, alias, hedrianus.

Publius.

Afer.

Publius Afer.

Yes.

That's a great. Yeah.

He was a Praetorian senator who spent most of his life in Rome away from Spain,

but he was from Spain himself.

The family, oh, sorry, was he actually Spanish or is he? Again, like Trajan. It's like,

is he Spanish? Is he Italian? It's hard to say. Yeah. But yeah, provincial, definitely.

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