Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius wrestled with these same struggles, jotting down his thoughts in what became Meditations.

the emperor Antoninus Pius. Just an hour away from central Rome, in the foothills, was a villa where he used to spend his holidays. And it’s from letters sent to his tutor, from this rural ...

Antoninus Pius was the man who gave his name to the Antonine Wall of 142 AD, which runs between the the Rivers Clyde and ...

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SUMMARY Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus succeeded to power together in 161 CE, as the adopted heirs of Antonius Pius. At the start of their reign, Verus conducted a successful war against the ...

painted terracotta with integrally cast plaster socles, three (Emperors Antoninus Pius, Trebonianus Gallus and Otho) with original terracotta-tinted plaster socles ...

Antoninus Pius was the man who gave his name to the ... revenues from supplying the troops with local goods. Soon after the Emperor Antonine died, his successor, Marcus Aurelius, moved the ...