Temple of Hadrian

This guide to the Temple of Hadrian in Rome opens with the emperor's death in 138 AD and the Senate's quiet refusal to grant him the divine honors a Roman ruler was owed. It follows his successor Antoninus Pius, who pushed back against that refusal and earned a new name for the fight, and the temple raised seven years later on the Campus Martius. Look up at the eleven towering columns and the scarred wall behind them as you listen for where the marble itself came from.