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Famous for its medicinal warm sulfur springs and purple oysters, and with a mild climate, it was an ideal retreat from heat of Rome, and many prominent Romans had villas in the area. It was at his villa near Baiae that the Emperor HadrianPublius Aelius Traianus Hadrianus ( January 24, 76 July 10, 138), known as Hadrian in English, was a Roman emperor from 117 138. He is considered one of the so-called Five Good Emperors''. Hadrian was born in Italica, Hispania, to a well-established settl died in 138Events February 25 Roman emperor Hadrian adopted Antoninus Pius on condition that Antonius would adopt Marcus Annius Aurelius Verus. July 10 Antoninus Pius succeeds Hadrian as Roman emperor Zhi becomes emperor of the Han Dynasty in China. Births Deaths Ju AD.
In the trial of Marcus Caelius RufusMarcus Caelius Rufus was a Roman orator and politician. He was born in 82 BCE to a family of eques in Interamnia ( Teramo) or Puteoli. In his twenties he became associated with Crassus and Cicero, although he was also briefly connected to Lucius Sergius C in 60 BCCenturies: 2nd century BC 1st century BC 1st century Decades: 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC 10s BC Years: 65 BC 64 BC 63 BC 62 BC 61 BC 60 BC 59 BC 58 BC 57 BC 56 BC 55 BC Events Creation of the First Triumvirate,, the prominent socialiteA socialite is a person (often a younger woman) of social prominence, considered to be an influential social figure. Their impact derives not so much from their artistic realisations (then they would be known in the first place as author or performer, etc ClodiaClodia born Claudia Pulchra Tertulla in circa 95 BC, was the third daughter of the patrician Appius Claudius Pulcher and Caecilia Metella Balearica. Despite being a woman, Clodia was very well educated in Greek and Philosophy, with a special talent for wr was described by the defense as living the life of a harlot in Rome and in the "crowded resort of Baiae", indulging in beach parties and drinking sessions.
Seneca the YoungerLucius Annaeus Seneca (often known simply as Seneca or Seneca the Younger (c. 3 BC AD 65) was a Roman philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work, humorist, of the " Silver Age" of Latin literature. Seneca the Younger Seneca was born in Cordoba, Sp (who died 65 BC) wrote a moral epistle on Baiae and Vice, describing the spa town as being a "vortex of luxury" and a "harbor of vice". Things had obviously not changed much when Sextus Propertius (died 15 BC) described the town as a "den of licentiousness and vice" in one of his elegies.Baiae was also the location for a spectacular stunt (in AD 37) by the eccentric Caligula, who on becoming Emperor ordered a temporary floating bridge to built using ships as pontoons, stretching for over two miles from the town of Baiae to the neighboring port of Puteoli, across which he proceeded to ride his horse, in defiance of an astrologer's prediction that he had "no more chance of becoming Emperor than of riding a horse across the Gulf of Baiae".