Stoic philosophy has exerted an important influence on the history of ideas, including on the thought of Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Schopenhauer, Adam Smith, and J.S. Mill, who, in On Liberty (1859) ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- For nearly 30 years, a massive bronze statue thought to be of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius served as the centerpiece of the ancient Roman gallery at the Cleveland Museum of Art ...
Italian restorers have used laser beams to clean an ancient Roman marble column in the piazza outside the prime minister’s office, removing layers of dust and grime that had covered the monument for ...
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is a timeless collection of philosophical reflections written during his reign as a Roman ...
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 ...
“Death smiles at us all.” – 🎬 Gladiator (2000) In Gladiator, this line is spoken by Marcus Aurelius — the wise emperor whose philosophy shapes the heart of the film. “Death smiles at us all. All a ...