contingent on Antoninus adopting Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus as his successors. This adoption secured Marcus' path to the throne. Column of Marcus Aurelius was erected in AD 180 to commemorate ...

The Column of Marcus Aurelius stands in the Piazza Colonna in Rome and was both modelled on - and improved upon - the earlier Trajan's Column. A helical frieze depicts the Marcomannic Wars of ...

42 x 29 cm. (16.5 x 11.4 in.) ...

This equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius is one of only two surviving bronze statues of a pre-Christian Roman emperor. Source: Pixabay/StevoLeBlanc Stoic philosophy has exerted an important ...

Robertson, a founding member of the organization Modern Stoicism and the president and founder of the Plato’s Academy Centre nonprofit, is the author of Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor In the ...

The second-century A.D. world of Emperor Marcus Aurelius was in shambles. A great plague ravaged western Europe, as he embarked on a long and bloody war against the Germanic tribes along the ...

Learning to sleep under the stern gaze of Marcus Aurelius. By Megan Margulies “Absolutely not,” I told my husband from the bed as he tried to find the right place on his dresser for Marcus ...