From the brick-stamps recovered from the ruins of the Villa, the buildings were constructed in two major phases:
* AD118-
125 abroad Athens cademy Canopus Egypt Greece Hades Maritime Theatre Pantheon philosophy Piazza d'Oro Poikile Serapis Tempe [?] , AD
125 abroad Athens cademy Canopus Egypt Greece Hades Maritime Theatre Pantheon philosophy Piazza d'Oro Poikile Serapis Tempe [?] -134
For much of this time Hadrian was
125 abroad Athens cademy Canopus Egypt Greece Hades Maritime Theatre Pantheon philosophy Piazza d'Oro Poikile Serapis Tempe [?] , travelling or residing in
125 abroad Athens cademy Canopus Egypt Greece Hades Maritime Theatre Pantheon philosophy Piazza d'Oro Poikile Serapis Tempe [?] . He returned to Rome in 125 and appears to have laid plans for extensions to his Villa at that time, before setting off on his second voyage in 128.
Parts of the complex were named after well-known buildings and places the emperor had visited on his journeys around the empire:
In Rome too, the age of Hadrian was a time of intense building (
125 abroad Athens cademy Canopus Egypt Greece Hades Maritime Theatre Pantheon philosophy Piazza d'Oro Poikile Serapis Tempe [?] , Temple of Venus and Rome, the Mausoleum etc.) His villa is extensive and covers approx 120 hectares.
Hadrian died in A.D. 138 at the age of 62, appointing Antoninus Pius as his successor.
* the
125 abroad Athens cademy Canopus Egypt Greece Hades Maritime Theatre Pantheon philosophy Piazza d'Oro Poikile Serapis Tempe [?] is named after the Stoa Poikile ('Painted Porch') in
125 abroad Athens cademy Canopus Egypt Greece Hades Maritime Theatre Pantheon philosophy Piazza d'Oro Poikile Serapis Tempe [?] * the A
125 abroad Athens cademy Canopus Egypt Greece Hades Maritime Theatre Pantheon philosophy Piazza d'Oro Poikile Serapis Tempe [?] ( is named after a district of
125 abroad Athens cademy Canopus Egypt Greece Hades Maritime Theatre Pantheon philosophy Piazza d'Oro Poikile Serapis Tempe [?] )
* both areas in Athens were associated with
125 abroad Athens cademy Canopus Egypt Greece Hades Maritime Theatre Pantheon philosophy Piazza d'Oro Poikile Serapis Tempe [?] * the Vale of
125 abroad Athens cademy Canopus Egypt Greece Hades Maritime Theatre Pantheon philosophy Piazza d'Oro Poikile Serapis Tempe [?] a valley to the north of the villa,(recalls the area in Thessaly in northern
125 abroad Athens cademy Canopus Egypt Greece Hades Maritime Theatre Pantheon philosophy Piazza d'Oro Poikile Serapis Tempe [?] Above- the ruins of a small round 'Temple of Venus' recalls the area 'Vale of
125 abroad Athens cademy Canopus Egypt Greece Hades Maritime Theatre Pantheon philosophy Piazza d'Oro Poikile Serapis Tempe [?] '.
* the
125 abroad Athens cademy Canopus Egypt Greece Hades Maritime Theatre Pantheon philosophy Piazza d'Oro Poikile Serapis Tempe [?] (pictured at the top of this page) gained its name from an island in the Nile in
125 abroad Athens cademy Canopus Egypt Greece Hades Maritime Theatre Pantheon philosophy Piazza d'Oro Poikile Serapis Tempe [?] that was famous for its sanctuary of the Underworld god,
125 abroad Athens cademy Canopus Egypt Greece Hades Maritime Theatre Pantheon philosophy Piazza d'Oro Poikile Serapis Tempe [?] Other parts of the Villa are more fantastically named:
* long underground passages near the Academy were called
125 abroad Athens cademy Canopus Egypt Greece Hades Maritime Theatre Pantheon philosophy Piazza d'Oro Poikile Serapis Tempe [?] after the Underworld
Other parts have gained modern, and sometimes misleading, titles:
* the
125 abroad Athens cademy Canopus Egypt Greece Hades Maritime Theatre Pantheon philosophy Piazza d'Oro Poikile Serapis Tempe [?] was a circular island, surrounded by a moat and entered across a drawbridge, that served as a private retreat
* the
125 abroad Athens cademy Canopus Egypt Greece Hades Maritime Theatre Pantheon philosophy Piazza d'Oro Poikile Serapis Tempe [?] ('Golden Court') is so-called simply because of the wealth of finds discovered there