In the middle of the second century CE, the most powerful man in the Western world sat in the legionary fortress of Carnuntum, by the River Danube, contemplating the fact that one day nobody would ...

Warning: There are spoilers ahead for Gladiator II.Marcus Aurelius’ “dream of Rome” is at the heart of Gladiator II, with ...

The empire the emperor inherited was faltering. The national treasury was depleted, and foreign invaders frequently crossed the borders. The emperor was kind and diligent. Though he tirelessly handled ...

Marcus Aurelius would never hit snooze. Ben Franklin loved to sit in the nude. These historical figures had serious opinions on how to start the morning right. Even history's most accomplished figures ...

The museum dropped a legal effort to block the seizure of the statue by investigators who said the bronze, thought by some to be of Marcus Aurelius, had been stolen. By Tom Mashberg and Graham Bowley ...

Albert Ellis, the founder of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), drew on Stoicism along with other ancient philosophies in devising REBT. Consequently REBT and Stoicism overlap in significant ...