One of the Lads
Mary Beard, 18 June 1998
Hadrian: The Restless Emperor
by Anthony Birley.
Routledge, 424 pp., £40, October 1997,9780415165440 Show More
by Anthony Birley.
Routledge, 424 pp., £40, October 1997,
“... as the Emperor Claudius’ mother, the subject of Antonia Augusta: Portrait of a Great Roman Lady, not to mention Lepidus, the Tarnished Triumvir) have been put through the biographical machine under Routledge’s auspices. But it cannot have been mere commercial pressure that induced the immensely knowledgeable, careful and scholarly Birley to concoct ... ”