What are your thoughts on Emperor Hadrian
For me, he’s probably the only one of the Five Good Emperors I have mixed feelings about. I’m no longer sore at him for abandoning territory, that was a necessary step to preserving the Empire (thought Trajan will always be Optimae Princeps to me), he also increased the discipline of the Army and traveled all over, ensuring good governance, not to mention professionalizing the civil service. I am not even sore at him for the manner of crushing the Bar Kohkba Revolt, since that was nothing new in how Rome dealt with uprisings. What I have an issue with is his attempt to Hellenize the Empire. Now before comments come down talking how Greek culture and language was already major in the empire, I know that, but he went a step further in trying to make Greek the official language, he was the first Roman Emperor with a beard, another way of showing how he preferred Greeks to Romans. He seemed to hate Roman Culture