Adrian's Memories

"Memoirs of Hadrian" is a first-person narrative in the form of fictional letters by the Roman Emperor Hadrian. It is a unique work of historical fiction in terms of the purity and precision of its literary style, reproducing the writing style of late Imperial Roman intellectuals so accurately that the novel was successfully translated into classical Latin. Equally masterful is the author's literary skill in literally "bringing to life" before the reader the complex, multifaceted, and extraordinary personality of the great Roman emperor—statesman and philosopher, builder and poet, general and tireless traveler, eternally driven into the unknown.