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Ancient Chinese historians recorded several alleged Roman emissaries to China. The first one on record, supposedly either from the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius or from his adopted son Marcus Aurelius, arrived in 166 AD.
Emperor Huan of Han (Chinese: 漢桓帝; pinyin: Hàn Huán Dì; Wade–Giles: Han Huan-ti; 132 – 25 January 168) [1] was the 27th emperor of the Han dynasty after he was enthroned by the Empress Dowager and her brother Liang Ji on 1 August 146. [2] He was a great-grandson of Emperor Zhang. He was the 11th emperor of the Eastern Han dynasty.
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]
The Five Good Emperors of the Roman Empire who ruled from 96 to 180: Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius; Year of the Five Emperors, 193 CE; The Five Emperors and Three Sovereigns, mythical rulers of ancient China; Wufang Shangdi a set of five Chinese deities called Emperors
Annia Galeria Aurelia Faustina, daughter of Marcus Aurelius (approximate date) Jia Xu (or Wenhe), Chinese official and adviser (d. 223) Lokaksema, Kushan Buddhist monk and traveler (d. 189) 148. Xun Yue (or Zhongyu), Chinese official and historian (d. 209) 149. Sima Fang (or Jiangong), Chinese official and scholar of the Han Dynasty (d. 219) [21]
Bust of Marcus Aurelius from Probalinthos, Attica (c. 161 AD; now in the Louvre, Paris) In contrast, Chinese histories offer an abundance of source material about their interactions with alleged Roman embassies and descriptions of their country.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (born Sextus Varius Avitus Bassianus, c. 204 – 13 March 222), better known by his posthumous nicknames Elagabalus (/ ˌ ɛ l ə ˈ ɡ æ b əl ə s / EL-ə-GAB-ə-ləs) and Heliogabalus (/ ˌ h iː l i ə-,-l i oʊ-/ HEE-lee-ə-, -lee-oh-[3]), was Roman emperor from 218 to 222, while he was still a teenager. His ...
2nd-century Chinese philosophers ... Marcus Aurelius (3 C, 10 P) Pages in category "2nd-century philosophers" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 ...