...Lee Behlman Arnold's ‘Marcus Aurelius’ afforded him the opportunities both to crystallize the earlier consensus view of the emperor's life – one of general sympathy and admiration – and to offer a new explanation for why he merited special attention. Arnold adapts the conception of the mixed nature...

... Hadrian and Antinous, and Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus are represented and displayed in a series of portrait busts commissioned by Herodes and arranged in his private villa at Loukou-Eva Kynouria or in the public sanctuary of Nemesis at Rhamnous in Attica. These images are integrated into a broader...

...Chapter ten breaks the chronological borders of Greek literature moving the discussion to the Roman Stoics and in particular Marcus Aurelius. Absent here is much of the mythological focus so characteristic of treatments of death and the afterlife in earlier chapters. However, emphasis...

... sculpture Falconet book Pliny the Elder Falconet's writings on Pomel casting assistant Rousseau Pierre Etienne-Maurice Falconet Marie-Anne Collot Marcus Aurelius equestrian statues Diderot Ivan Ivanovich Betskoi It's raining Falconets in St. Petersburg. —Falconet ( 1773 ) By the beginning...

...This chapter presents an exchange of letters between Marcus Aurelius and Marcus Cornelius Fronto. The first letter, written by Marcus to Fronto, indicates that Marcus is longing for Fronto. Marcus also says: “Should I not burn with love of you when you've written this to me?” In his reply, Fronto...

... and the Column of Marcus Aurelius. It discusses the draining of the Pontine Marshes. It treats issues of financing these and other great projects, and describes the floods of 1589, the condition of starvation of the population in the same year, and the hatred that the Roman population held for Sixtus because...

...From the passing of Marcus Aurelius (d. 180 CE) to the reign of Justinian (527–565) and beyond, the Roman imperial state underwent changes that were as profound and full of interest as those which had transpired between the late Republic and the Antonine age. Just as the vicissitudes...

... for melancholy that was structured to regenerate dramatically an immersive appreciation of the present. As Marcus Aurelius put 268 it: “Give yourself a gift: the present moment.” ⁶⁴ Attention (prosoche) was a core Stoic mode of being, one that is quite similar in some ways to modern...

...Roman Imperial Portrait Practice in the Second Century ad: Marcus Aurelius and Faustina the Younger. Christian Niederhuber, Oxford University Press. © Christian Niederhuber 2022. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192845658.003.0005 Chapter 5 examines the coins and medallions of Marcus...

...Roman Imperial Portrait Practice in the Second Century ad: Marcus Aurelius and Faustina the Younger. Christian Niederhuber, Oxford University Press. © Christian Niederhuber 2022. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192845658.003.0006 Chapter 6 reassesses the complete typology...

...Roman Imperial Portrait Practice in the Second Century ad: Marcus Aurelius and Faustina the Younger. Christian Niederhuber, Oxford University Press. © Christian Niederhuber 2022. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192845658.003.0011 The conclusion very briefly repeats the main results...

...This chapter argues that understanding the rationale behind the location of Adrastus's house is but one of the problems one faces when trying to reconstruct the ancient surroundings of the Column of Marcus Aurelius. Our understanding of the function of the column in its broad historical...

...This chapter illustrates how the meager and frequently unreliable sources for the history of the reign of Marcus Aurelius make it almost impossible to reconstruct any more than a superficial account of the main events of his reign. The main literary sources for the period are two: Cassius Dio...

...This chapter singles out three men from the second century ad who exalted the ideal of the philosopher ruler, and who themselves were honoured as philosophers: Plutarch, Arrian, and Marcus Aurelius. Their ambitions clearly combined the abstract and the practical, a desire to do what...

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... be brought into contact with each other: the prominence of Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius (and to a lesser degree Seneca) in the contemporary reception of Stoicism has made it natural to focus primarily on its potential as a source for moral advice and self-improvement. But what about Stoic physics? How does...

...The figure of Marcus Aurelius in Pater’s novel Marius the Epicurean is examined in order to shed light on Pater’s complex attitude to both pagan philosophy and early Christianity. The novel makes extensive use of Marcus’ own Meditations, but some significant...

...This chapter details the combined efforts of Antoninus Pius and Faustina I to establish a dynasty based on family inheritance. The marriage between Marcus Aurelius and Faustina II was meant to solidify the monarchy, yet such unions were not without political consequences. Faustina II, as befitting...

..., or spiritual liberation, that came first, and this preserved a certain detachment from the political. His spiritual objective has no analogue in Stoicism. Yet he would have approved the Stoic Emperor Marcus Aurelius, when he said that Philosophy was his mother, the politics of the palace his step-mother, who...

... that helped two emperors – Marcus Aurelius and Severus – to avoid death by conspiracy, while many others fell to plots. But the chapter quietly raises the question: how much lasting good can leaders who possess the highest quality virtú do in an altogether corrupt tyranny like the Roman...