Adrian Goldsworthy received his DPhil in ancient history from Oxford and has taught at Cardiff University, King's College, and the University of Notre Dame in London. The author of numerous books, including Pax Romana, How Rome Fell, and Caesar, he lives in South Wales, UK.
"Hadrian's Wall is a short and sparkling introduction to the great
wall of the Roman Empire, written by a master historian. Adrian
Goldsworthy cuts through the myth without losing the magic. This is
a lucid account of the people, purpose and places of one of the
world's most famous military structures."--Barry Strauss, Cornell
University, author of The Death of Caesar: The Story of History's
Greatest Assassination
"Adrian Goldsworthy has done it again! He has taken a well-known
topic in Roman history and breathed new life into it. Goldsworthy
has given us an easily-accessible study that takes the best and
most up-to-date scholarship on the subject and has put it into an
eminently readable narrative for the general public. If you can
only own one book on Hadrian's Wall, this is it." --Col. Rose Mary
Sheldon, Virginia Military Institute
"An appealing, detailed history of the largest monument left by the
Roman Empire."--Kirkus Reviews
"For those touring the wall or armchair travelers, this book will
be an excellent guide and entertaining read for Roman military
history fans."--Library Journal
"They must have wondered, those rude Picts and Caledonians, when
they looked up at Hadrian's Wall, at what sort of a giant serpent
had come into their land. And we still wonder at the Wall, as every
generation of excavators digs up more puzzles than they solve, and
our confident, modern, small questions-How was it built? -have
monstrously transformed over the generations into those that the
awed barbarians themselves might have asked: What did it intend?
What was it for? And so, we are thankful for the guidance of Adrian
Goldsworthy, for his clear thinking, his calm judgment, and his
crystal prose. If anyone can explain the vast Roman Wall, if anyone
can answer the barbarians' questions, it is he." --J. E. Lendon,
University of Virginia, author of Song of Wrath: The Peloponnesian
War Begins and Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in
Classical Antiquity
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