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Marcus Aurelius: Philosopher Emperor of 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 ...
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Six surprising things that Mary Beard reveals about Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius
In the first episode she looks behind the steely façade of famously philosophical, strong and masculine emperor Marcus Aurelius to discover a much more complicated, naïve, flirtatious and ...