the young Marcus Aurelius took lessons on how to be an emperor from his tutor Marcus Cornelius Fronto and from his adoptive father, the emperor Antoninus Pius. Just an hour away from central Rome ...

SUMMARY Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus succeeded to power together in 161 CE, as the adopted heirs of Antonius Pius. At the start of their reign, Verus conducted a successful war against the ...

The future emperor protected Herodes ... of Faustina the Elder, wife of Antoninus Pius)—and that he was serving as ordinary consul that year (alongside Titus Clodius Vibius Varus), the intervention of ...

The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see," Marcus writes ... Refrain from imposing your feelings onto reality. The emperor was faced with constant fighting, the rebellion of ...

The Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius ruled from 161 to 180 AD, and developed a reputation for being the ideal wise leader Plato termed the "philosopher king." Marcus has remained relevant for 1,800 ...