Marcus Aurelius has been acknowledged as a sage. But his reign was marked as much by military affairs as it was by philosophy ...

Marcus Aurelius, a Roman emperor and renowned Stoic philosopher, is celebrated as the last of the "Five Good Emperors." Born ...

Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, a prominent Stoic philosopher, believed happiness stems from the quality of one's thoughts, ...

Stoic philosophy has exerted an important influence on the history of ideas, including on the thought of Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Schopenhauer, Adam Smith, and J.S. Mill, who, in On Liberty (1859) ...

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 ...

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As part of its enduring commitment to the sustainability of cultural heritage, Türkiye has achieved another milestone in preservation and repatriation efforts. After 65 years, the bronze statue of ...

The life-size sculpture, believed to represent the daughter of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, was in the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts. By Tom Mashberg An ancient Roman statue believed to ...

Key points Marcus Aurelius, author of the "Meditations," is one of the principal sources of Roman Stoicism. As the Roman emperor, he had a rare chance to put philosophy into practice but had to deal ...