Marcus Aurelius has been acknowledged as a sage. But his reign was marked as much by military affairs as it was by philosophy.
Editors’ note: The following passage is excerpted from Book III of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, translated by Aaron ...
“Death smiles at us all.” – 🎬 Gladiator (2000) In Gladiator, this line is spoken by Marcus Aurelius — the wise emperor whose ...
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ROME — Vivid scenes of battlefield decapitations and female prisoners dragged off by their hair, carved into the 1,840-year-old marble Column of Marcus Aurelius towering over central Rome, are being ...