Maximus is a powerful Roman general, loved by the people and the aging Emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Before his death, the Emperor chooses Maximus to be his heir over his own son, Commodus ...
The most famous ruler featured in the hoard is arguably the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (reigned from A.D. 161 to 180), while his wife, Faustina II, is portrayed on a coin of her own.
In new BBC Radio 4 series Being Roman, best-selling historian of the ... strong and masculine emperor Marcus Aurelius to discover a much more complicated, naïve, flirtatious and curiously anxious ...
The emperor was jealous of Maximus, because not only had he been Marcus Aurelius’ choice to take over the government of Rome, but he also had a history with Lucilla in the past. The Roman ...
Rome, circa 209 A.D. Sixteen years after the demise of Emperor Marcus Aurelius and Maximus Decimus Meridius in Gladiator (2000), the Roman Empire is now ruled by the tyrannical Emperors Caracalla ...
The newest coins date from about A.D. 175 during the reign of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, who died in 180. | Credit: Andrew Williams/Norfolk County Council Metal detectorists in the east of ...