Several ancient Roman emperors loved Greece. As the Roman Empire consolidated, Greek culture, literature, politics, and art ...
Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius speaks: "When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly.
As well as a military man, comfortable with brutal violence and relentless warfare, Marcus Aurelius was a writer and deep thinker. His Stoic philosophical jottings on life and death are now ...
A lesson from second century Marcus Aurelius. He was one of Rome’s only five good emperors. He reigned at the peak of the ...
The most famous ruler featured in the hoard is arguably the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (reigned from ... writing his "Meditations" and thoughts on Stoic philosophy. Adrian Marsden, a coin ...