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Marcus Aurelius: A Biography Told as Much as May Be by Letters, Together With Some Account of the Stoic Religion and an Exposition of the Roman Government's Attempt to Suppress Christianity During ...
1800 years after his death, Marcus Aurelius is still being read and misunderstood. Sign Up for Our Ideas Newsletter POV. Subscribe Subscribe. Sections. ... Contact us at [email protected].
The majority of the letters in the palimpsest were between Fronto and Marcus Aurelius himself, both before and after he had ascended to the throne. Unlike the passages from Juvenal and Pliny, these ...
In A.D. 175, a courier presented the emperor Marcus Aurelius with a letter from the Roman Senate. The news was not good: Marcus had been betrayed by the military commander Avidius Cassius, who had ...
We know from his letters that Marcus Aurelius read Cato’s treatise on agriculture. And while in the holiday villa outside Rome, ...
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The headless statue is believed to depict Marcus Aurelius. The investigation into its origins comes over a decade after Turkey claimed that 21 objects at the museum were linked to an illicit trade.
Gregory Hays talked about his translation of [Meditations of Marcus Aurelius], published by Modern Library. The book is a collection of reflections on leadership and ethics written by Marcus ...
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 ...