Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius wrestled with these same struggles, jotting down his thoughts in what became Meditations.

The museum dropped a legal effort to block the seizure of the statue by investigators who said the bronze, thought by some to ...

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 Roman Emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius coined many a memorable phrase, including: "Be not careless in deeds, ...

How you react to your circumstances makes the biggest impact - and the way you choose to deal with negative people is no exception. As the ruler of a vast empire, Marcus Aurelius had to deal with ...

In new BBC Radio 4 series Being Roman, best-selling historian of ... strong and masculine emperor Marcus Aurelius to discover a much more complicated, naïve, flirtatious and curiously anxious ...

Refrain from imposing your feelings onto reality. The emperor was faced with constant fighting, the rebellion of his general Cassius, the deaths of his wife and close friend, and the realization ...

A Roman-era bridge was discovered in the ancient city of Elefsina, west of Athens during works for a suburban railway line.

The Roman emperors were once the most famous people ... but history judges a few of the others more favorably, such as Marcus Aurelius (who ruled from A.D. 161 to 180), an important Stoic philosopher.