Sublime

Après la mort de son père survenue dans sa prime enfance, il fut remarqué, protégé, favorisé par l'empereur Hadrien. Peu avant de mourir, en 138, celui-ci, pour assurer sa succession, adopta Antonin, l'oncle par alliance du futur Marc Aurèle, en lui demandant d'adopter celui-ci et en même temps Lucius Verus, le fils d'Aelius Caesar, un personnage q

Marcus, wrote the historian Edward Gibbon, was the last of the Five Good Emperors (the other four being Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and Antoninus) who ruled from 96–180 and brought about “the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous.”

Marcus Aurelius presided over a period of relative political stability during the era now known as the golden age of Rome. He was respected as a just ruler and a skilled general who oversaw successful military campaigns against the Parthian Empire, the kingdom of Armenia, and assorted Germanic tribes. And thanks to his writings, he came to be rever

Quand, le 7 mars 161, Marc Aurèle accède à l'empire, c'est donc un événement inattendu et extraordinaire qui se produit. Rome a un empereur qui fait profession d'être un philosophe, et qui plus est un philosophe stoïcien.

Pompey the Great

Roman prefect of Egypt, Gaius Galerius.