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Hadrian and the Renewal of Cyrene

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2015

Susan Walker
Susan Walker*
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Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, The British Museum
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Abstract

This paper examines the impact on Cyrene of the Jewish Revolt of AD 115/6. Cyrene was particularly vulnerable to attack because of its status as regional capital and its inland location. The task of regeneration fell to Hadrian. Besides reconstructing buildings key to the resumption of Roman public life, Hadrian sent colonists to Cyrenaica, and exhorted the surviving population to assume the burden of reconstruction. By the late Antonine era, the population was restored and Cyrene entirely redeveloped in a striking amalgam of the latest fashions in architectural design and a deliberately conservative evocation of the city's Dorian origins.

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Libyan Studies , Volume 33 , 2002 , pp. 45 - 56
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Copyright © Society for Libyan Studies 2002

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