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 ...
In the middle of the second century CE, the most powerful man in the Western world sat in the legionary fortress of Carnuntum, by the River Danube, contemplating the fact that one day nobody would ...
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 influence ...
This, however, is but a part of what the title promises and the book performs. I’he facts ol the Emperor’s life are related as hilly as scanty sources will allow; and the scraps of information have ...
Consider the fortunes of Marcus Aurelius, ruler of Rome from A.D. 161 to 180 and follower of the Stoic ethical creed. He never meant to be a published author; the thoughts he set down, in Greek, were ...
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 Aurelius ...
Matthew Sharpe works for Deakin University. He has in the past received Australian Research Council moneys for research on the history of the idea of philosophy as a way of life. Marcus Aurelius was ...
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) ...
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