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15 unusual facts about Marcus Aurelius


Alice Zimmern

While teaching, Zimmern produced a school edition of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius in 1887, a translation of Hugo Bluemner's The Home Life of the Ancient Greeks (1893), and a translation of Porphyry: The Philosopher to his Wife Marcella (1896).

Ed Janus

The second project under consideration is a one-man play called Marcus Aurelius Tonight, a reprise for the venerable Stoic.

Gaius Bruttius Praesens

Lucius Fulvius Gaius Bruttius Praesens Laberius Maximus Polyonymus (c. 119 – after 180) was a prominent Roman senator and twice consul during the reigns of Roman emperors Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius and Commodus.

George Grube

George Maximilian Antony Grube (3 August 1899 – 13 December 1982) was a classicist and translator of Plato, Aristotle, Demetrius of Phaleron, Longinus and Marcus Aurelius, as well as a Canadian democratic socialist political activist.

Leigh, Surrey

The oldest of the coins dates from 31 BC and the youngest were minted in around 180 AD after the death of the emperor Marcus Aurelius.

Lucius Bruttius Quintius Crispinus

His father’s family originally came from Volceii, Lucania, Italy and were closely associated with the Roman Emperors Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius.

Lucius Plautius Lamia Silvanus

Augustan History claims that Fabia Orestilla was a descendant of Roman Emperors Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius through her father Fulvus Antoninus.

Marcus Petronius Mamertinus

Petronius married an unnamed African Roman noblewoman and they had three children: a son Marcus Petronius Sura Mamertinus who served as consul in 182 who married Annia Cornificia Faustina Minor (one of the daughters of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius), Marcus Petronius Sura Septimianus who served as consul in 190 and a daughter who had married the illustrious Roman Senator Marcus Antoninus Antius Lupus.

Marcus Ummidius Quadratus Annianus

Marcus Ummidius Quadratus Annianus (138 CE - 182 CE) was a wealthy Roman Politician and the nephew of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius.

Plautius Quintillus

His brother may have been Lucius Titius Plautius Aquilinus who served as consul in 162 under the Roman Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.

Pomponia Ummidia

The paternal great, grandparents of her mother were the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius and Roman Empress Faustina the Younger.

Quintus Volusius Flaccus Cornelianus

Cornelianus served as a Roman consul in 174 during the reign of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius.

Thomas North

He translated, in 1557, Guevara's Reloj de Principes (commonly known as Libro áureo), a compendium of moral counsels chiefly compiled from the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, under the title of Diall of Princes.

Titus Pomponius Proculus Vitrasius Pollio

Pollio married a noblewoman called Annia Fundania Faustina, who was a relative of to the ruling Nerva–Antonine dynasty of the Roman Empire, whose paternal aunt was the Roman Empress Faustina the Elder and her paternal cousins was the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius and the Roman Empress Faustina the Younger.

Pollio was deputy to Lucius Verus’ co-Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius in the Marcomannic Wars, where he died during the conflict.


Arch of Constantine

Together with three panels now in the Capitoline Museum, the reliefs were probably taken from a triumphal monument commemorating Marcus Aurelius' war against the Marcomanni and the Sarmatians from 169 – 175, which ended with his triumphant return in 176.

Arch of Marcus Aurelius

It is a quadrifrons trumphal arch, surmounted by an unusual octagonal cupola,and was erected (entirely in marble) by Gaius Calpurnius Celsus, quinquennial duumvir of the city, to commemorate the victories of Lucius Verus, junior colleague and adoptive brother of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, over the Parthians in the Roman–Parthian War of 161–66.

Constantius of Perugia

According to his legend, of which four versions exist, he was arrested during the persecutions of Antoninus (some sources say Marcus Aurelius) and whipped, and then forced into a stove along with his companions, from which all escaped unharmed.

Equestrian Portrait of Charles V

Drawing on sources such as Roman military art (the statue of Marcus Aurelius on horseback), Renaissance equestrian imagery such as the engravings of Hans Burgkmair, and possibly Dürer's 1513 engraving Knight, Death and the Devil, Titian departs from the traditional rendering of rider on horse, in which one of the horse's front legs is raised (as seen in the gallery of Roman and Renaissance works below).

Gaius Vettius Sabinianus Julius Hospes

At the beginning of the reigns of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, Vettius Sabinianus was the iuridicus per tractus of three of the Italian regions, Aemilia, Etruria and Liguria.

Gligorije Trlajić

That same year, he published Mon opinion sur la méthode de traiter l'histoire générale dans cet établissement général. He translated the works of Ludwig Heinrich von Nicolai, Christoph Martin Wieland, Mikhail Kheraskov, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Marcus Aurelius, and François Fénelon's The Adventures of Telemachus.

Lucilla

Annia Aurelia Galeria Lucilla or Lucilla (March 7, 148 or 150–182) was the second daughter and third child of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius and Roman Empress Faustina the Younger and an elder sister to future Roman Emperor Commodus.

Scillitan Martyrs

It was the last persecutions under Marcus Aurelius, which is best known from the sufferings of the churches of Vienne and Lyon in South Gaul.

Severinus, Exuperius, and Felician

Saints Severinus, Exuperius, and Felician were martyrs put to death under Emperor Marcus Aurelius at Vienne, Gaul.

Ulukışla

the tomb of Faustina the Younger, wife of Emperor Marcus Aurelius was found in the village of Başmakçı, and the baths of Çiftehan claim among their patrons Cleopatra (in the time when she was living in Tarsus).