An avid scholar of art and history, Hadrian played a key role in the villa's design of the complex, with buildings reflecting places he had once visited. Pictured, the Canopus pool, named for the city in which Hadrian's lover, Antinous, drowned. While the water feature was intended to represent the Egyptian rive, the 'Caryatid' statues of the 'Caryatids' are Greek in origin