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

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 ...

The Art of Living Marcus Aurelius’s Ten Commandments Massimo Pigliucci studies the Stoic Emperor’s to-do list. Commandments are generally lists of things someone requires some ...