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" was marvellously constructed, and he actually gave to parts of it the names of provinces and places of the greatest renown, calling them, for instance, Lyceum, Academia, Prytaneum, Canopus, Poecile and Tempe. And in order not to omit anything, he even... "
The Scriptores Historiae Augustae - Page 83
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The History of Gardens

Christopher Thacker - Gardening - 1985 - 308 pages
...‘His [Hadrian's] villa at Tibur was marvellously constructed, and he actually gave to parts of it names of provinces and places of the greatest renown,...for instance, Lyceum, Academia, Prytaneum, Canopus, Poccile and Tempe. And in order not to omit anything, he even made a Hades.' These names are allusive,...
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Wax Tablets of the Mind: Cognitive Studies of Memory and Literacy in ...

Jocelyn Penny Small - History - 1997 - 404 pages
...in naming parts of his villa at Tivoli after places he had been: His villa at Tibur was marvelously constructed, and he actually gave to parts of it the...And in order not to omit anything, he even made a i-lanes. 24 The area called the ‘Canopus' still exists and statuary stands between columns around...
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The Historians of Ancient Rome

Ronald Mellor - History - 1998 - 548 pages
...comedies, Atellan farces, players on the sambuca, readers, or poets. His villa at Tibur was marvelously constructed, and he actually gave to parts of it the...The premonitions of his death were as follows: On his last birthday, when he was commending Antoninus to the gods, his bordered toga fell down without...
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Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph: The Art of the Roman Empire AD 100-450

Jaś Elsner - Art - 1998 - 344 pages
...selection of what the empire had to offer. In the words of Hadrian's biographer: His villa at Tivoli was marvellously constructed, and he actually gave...of the greatest renown, calling them, for instance, the Lycaeum, the Academy, the Prytany, the Canopus, the Poecile, and Tempe. And in order not to omit...
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Italy Illuminated, Volume 1: Books I-IV

Biondo Flavio - History - 2005 - 538 pages
...the villa that the emperor Hadrian constructed. Aelius Spartianus writes of it: "His villa at Tibur was marvellously constructed, and he actually gave...names of provinces and places of the greatest renown." 169 (We shall give other material from Strabo about Tibur a little later when we treat of Praeneste.)...
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