🏺 🏛️ Hadrian is widely considered to be one of the Roman Empire’s most important and enlightened emperors whose reign changed the course of history. A gifted military leader and talented statesman, he was also an erudite patron of the arts and a consummate builder responsible for constructing great monuments throughout the empire. He will always be remembered by the Jewish people, however, as the ruthless oppressor who crushed the Bar Kokhba revolt; slaughtered more than 580,000 people; erased