This character recalls his choice to disarm rather than kill a slave who attacks him in an abandoned mine while defining his life as an attempt to follow the philosophical zeitgeist "Humanitas, Libertas, Felicitas."
This character recalls his choice to disarm rather than kill a slave who attacks him in an abandoned mine while defining his life as an attempt to follow the philosophical zeitgeist "Humanitas, Libertas, Felicitas." A prophetess in a woodcutter's hut predicts cities built and burnt before the death of this character, whose wizard grandfather sees in the stars that he will rule the world. In his youth, this character receives the "bloody aspersion" from a cult he (*) forbids after the initiation of his twenty-year-old lover, whose suicide is presaged when they watch a sacrificial victim struck by lightning with his physician Hermogenes. The friendship of Plotina ensures the succession of this philhellene, who founds an Egyptian city as the center of a cult dedicated to his Bithynian lover Antinous. For 10 points, name this emperor whose Memoirs are recounted to Marcus Aurelius in a novel by Marguerite Yourcenar.
This character recalls his choice to disarm rather than kill a slave who attacks him in an abandoned mine while defining his life as an attempt to follow the philosophical zeitgeist "Humanitas, Libertas, Felicitas."
Hadrian [or Publius Aelius Hadrianus; or Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus; accept Pater Patriae or Father of the Country, which he eventually stops refusing as a title]