Michèle Villetard

For the first time, architectural places devoted to teaching throughout the Roman world, including East and West, from the end of the Republic (1^st century BC) to the beginning of the Byzantine period (7^th century AD) are studied thanks to this book.

Twenty-five ways to account for the memories of the Roman emperors Trajan and Hadrian (98-117 and 117-138 BCE) offer us many variations and angles of multidisciplinary approach, and are placed under the illustrious patronage of Marguerite Yourcenar's Mémoires d'Hadrien (1951).