TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yourcenar,Marguerite
AU  - Frick,Grace
TI  - Memoirs of Hadrian ; : and Reflections on the composition of Memoirs of Hadrian / 
SN  - 9780374529260
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York : 
PB  - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 
N1  - Animula vagula blandula
Varius multiplex multiformis
Tellus stabilita
Saeculum aureum
Disciplina augusta
Patientia

N2  - Both an exploration of character and a meditation on history, Marguerite Yourcenar's novel Memoirs of Hadrian has received international acclaim since its publication in France in 1951. Written in the form of a testamentary letter from the emperor Hadrian to his successor, the youthful Marcus Aurelius, the work is as extraordinary for its psychological depth as for its accurate reconstruction of the second century of our era. In it, Yourcenar reimagines Hadrian's arduous boyhood, his triumphs and reversals, and finally, as emperor, his reordering of a war-torn world
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