From the hills of the Czech Republic’s Moravia region, archaeologists discovered a rare bronze wrist purse worn by a Roman ...

Born in A.D. 121 into an aristocratic family in Rome, Marcus Aurelius received an excellent education in rhetoric and philosophy. He studied Greek and quoted freely from Homer and Euripides.

An archaeological dig in eastern France revealed the remnants of a five-foot-high equestrian statue that likely overlooked a ...

Son of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, Commodus ruled as sole emperor for 12 years (A.D. 180-192), his reign marred by perpetual scandal. The emperor had disturbingly little esteem for traditional ...

Discover six of Rome's most important emperors. Marcus Aurelius. Born 121 AD; Reigned 161 - 180 AD; Pivotal moment: Marcus Aurelius increased social mobility by promoting army officer and civil ...

Marcus Aurelius was the last of the Five Good Emperors, and a rare example of Plato’s philosopher-king. In the latter years of his life, he kept a private journal which has miraculously come ...

Emperor Marcus Aurelius, a philosopher-king and the last of Rome’s “Five Good Emperors,” ruled from 161 to 180 AD, ... In the climate movement under Marcus Aurelius, ...

Why Marcus Aurelius Really Wrote the ... but the Emperor of Rome. In the latter years of ... that the first recorded Roman embassy to China, at that time under the Hans, arrived in 166, in the ...

Under Commodus’ rule, Rome’s political landscape becomes increasingly unstable. ... (Spencer Treat Clark) represents the future of Rome as Marcus Aurelius’ grandson through his daughter Lucilla.