Less than a year after arriving in Rome as the new emperor, Hadrian journeyed to Campania, the southern region of Italy where Greek civilisation had once flourished. A passage in the Historia Augusta gives a chronological order of events and states that the journey came after the removal of the prefects, placing Hadrian's Campanian excursion sometime in… Continue reading AD 119 – Hadrian visits Campania to aid the towns by gifts and benefactions (#Hadrian1900)
