Marcus Aurelius is remembered as a wise philosopher-emperor ... and his uncle was Antoninus Pius, the future Roman emperor. His family, the gens Annia, claimed descent from Numa Pompilius ...

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

Philo of Alexandria was a Jewish leader, philosopher and scholar in ... an important spokesman for Jews throughout the Roman Empire. Under the Emperor Augustus, Jews in Rome were allowed to ...

The first Roman emperor to wear a full beard ... describes a ruler fascinated by the philosophy and architecture of the empire’s eastern provinces. The whole villa reflected the ideas and ...

In new BBC Radio 4 series Being Roman, best-selling ... Before he was a war leader or a philosopher, the young Marcus Aurelius took lessons on how to be an emperor from his tutor Marcus Cornelius ...

Historians record that the unified Roman Empire was ruled by 69 emperors between the first emperor Augustus (who ... A.D. 161 to 180), an important Stoic philosopher. Here are 15 questions to ...