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The major sources depicting the life and rule of Marcus Aurelius are patchy and frequently unreliable. The most important group of sources, the biographies contained in the Historia Augusta, claimed to be written by a group of authors at the turn of the 4th century AD, but it is believed they were in fact written by a single author (referred to here as 'the biographer') from about 395. [4]
1800 years after his death, Marcus Aurelius is still being read and misunderstood. ... As another Stoic, Seneca, famously put it: “All cruelty springs from weakness.” Those who equate Stoicism ...
The Marcomannic Wars (Latin: bellum Germanicum et Sarmaticum [b] German and Sarmatian war) were a series of wars lasting from about AD 166 until 180.These wars pitted the Roman Empire against principally the Germanic Marcomanni and Quadi and the Sarmatian Iazyges; there were related conflicts with several other Germanic, Sarmatian, and Gothic peoples along both sides of the whole length of the ...
The title of the book is drawn from a quote from Meditations, a series of personal writings by Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius: “The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way .” [ 1 ] Holiday draws from Meditations , Aurelius, and the philosophy of Stoicism to expand the central theme of the book, which is ...
Marble statue of Marcus Aurelius in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen. The major sources for the life and rule of Marcus are patchy and frequently unreliable. The biographies contained in the Historia Augusta claim to be written by a group of authors at the turn of the 4th century, but are in fact written by a single author (referred to here as "the biographer of the Historia Augusta ...
He made Marcus Aurelius his heir in 161, and died shortly thereafter. The most significant constitutional development that occurred during the reign of Marcus Aurelius was the revival of the republican principle of collegiality, [25] as he made his brother, L. Aelius, his co-emperor. Marcus Aurelius ruled the western half of the empire, while ...
In AD 175 Cassius was proclaimed emperor after he received erroneous news of the death of Marcus Aurelius, [24] whose survival made Cassius a usurper of the empire. [25] Cassius' rebellion ended three months into his bid for the throne when one of his centurions assassinated him in favour of Marcus Aurelius. [26]
The Crisis of the Third Century, also known as the Military Anarchy [1] or the Imperial Crisis (235–284), was a period in Roman history during which the Roman Empire nearly collapsed under the combined pressure of repeated foreign invasions, civil wars and economic disintegration.