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Hadrian's Rome
Hadrian's Rome

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This free course was written by Eleanor Betts and Valerie Hope.

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Reading 1: Boatwright, M.T. (1987) Hadrian and the City of Rome, New Jersey, © Princeton University Press.

Reading 2: Davies, P.J.E. (2000) Death and the Emperor: Roman Imperial Funerary Monuments from Augustus to Marcus Aurelius, Cambridge University Press.

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