Marcus Aurelius was born in Rome in 121 CE during the reign of Hadrian ... supported the usurper would be absolved of their crimes. Under a less lenient emperor, many of these could have expected ...

US museum to return the ancient statue of emperor Marcus Aurelius to Turkey after forensic tests confirm its origins in ...

He died in 180, while campaigning against the barbarian tribes on Rome’s northern frontier. The following book extract is excerpted with permission from Meditations, Marcus Aurelius, Fingerprint!

His Stoic philosophical jottings on life and death are now published under the ... in a villa outside Rome Before he was a war leader or a philosopher, the young Marcus Aurelius took lessons ...