De Franceschini M.
"Villa Adriana di Tivoli: architettura e potere"
in
Experiencing the Landscape in Antiquity 2, BAR S3107 edited by Armando
Cristilli, Fabio de Luca, Gioconda di Luca and Alessia Gonfloni,
published by BAR Publishing (Oxford, 2022), pp. 99-103.
Monumental and scenographic architecture, imitating the grandiose architecture of the Persian and Hellenistic palaces, was a way of showing the power of the emperor. Its greatest example is Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli.