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Hadrianic
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Etymology
From en Hadrian ic.
Adjective
Of or relating to Hadrian (76–138), Roman emperor from 117 to 138.
en H[einrich] Graetz A[braham] B[enedict] Rhine Popular History of the Jews II New York, N.Y. w:Hebrew Publishing Company 1919 489 https://archive.org/details/popularhistoryj00harkgoog/page/489/mode/1up The scattered bands of death-defying zealots who had fled to Egypt and Cyrene after the destruction of the second Temple, in order to continue their desperate resistance to Roman servitude, had reached Arabia also. Fugitives from the Hadrianic wars also probably found refuge in Arabia.
en Jocelyn M. C. Toynbee The Hadrianic School: A Chapter in the History of Greek Art Cambridge, Cambs. At the University Press 1934 xxxi The reverse-types of the bronze coins issued at Athens under Hadrian, though they are admittedly inferior from the purely aesthetic point of view and receive but scant, if any, attention in books on Imperial art, are monuments of the greatest interest and importance for studying the history of art and for gauging the artistic mentality of the times; they would make an excellent starting-point for the study of art in Hadrianic Greece.
en J[erome] J[ordan] Pollitt Art and Experience in Classical Greece w:Cambridge University Press 1972 2006 61 978-0-521-08065-1 Archaism in Antiquity was never so varied as it is today, nor was it ever used in quite the same virtuoso-like way, but it does have a long history in Graeco-Roman art. Its principal flowering came in the late Hellenistic period and, especially, in Hadrianic art, but its roots, like so many other innovations in Greek art, are traceable to the period between 480 and 450 b.c., when it is quite apparent in the work of a group of Attic vase painters , of whom the foremost was the Pan Painter.
en G[regory] O[wen] Hutchinson Greek to Latin: Frameworks and Contexts for Intertextuality Oxford, Oxon w:Oxford University Press 2013 79 978-0-19-967070-3 At Tauromenium, the Trajanic or Hadrianic reconstruction of the theatre was accompanied by the building of an odeion for performance on a smaller scale.
en 2024 David Golinkin Responsa in a Moment 4 Are Thee Ways Of Hidinng A Mezuzah In Times Of Danger? 208 the "danger/time of danger" mentioned almost twenty times in Tannaitic literature, which according to Prof. Lieberman was the first stage of the Hadrianic persecutions before the "decrees of destruction" (gezeirot hashmad) during the Bar Kokhba rebellion.
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