180 - 180 Births, 180 Deaths, Marcus Aurelius, Apuleius, Early Life and Career of Marcus Aurelius, Emperorship of Marcus Aurelius, Hegesippus (Paperback)

Chapters: 180 Births, 180 Deaths, Marcus Aurelius, Apuleius, Early Life and Career of Marcus Aurelius, Emperorship of Marcus Aurelius, Hegesippus, Scillitan Martyrs, Rabbi Hiyya, Leucius of Brindisi, List of State Leaders in 180, Julia Soaemias, Sima Fu, Pinytus, Quintus Anicius Faustus Paulinus, Philip of Gortyna, Cassius Apronianus, Herculanils, 180 Ad. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 124. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (26 April 121 17 March 180) was Roman emperor from 161 to his death in 180. He ruled with Lucius Verus as co-emperor from 161 until Lucius' death in 169. He was the last of the "Five Good Emperors," and is also considered one of the most important Stoic philosophers. His tenure was marked by wars in Asia against a revitalized Parthian Empire, and with Germanic tribes along the Limes Germanicus into Gaul and across the Danube. A revolt in the East, led by Avidius Cassius who previously fought under Lucius Verus against the Parthians, failed. Marcus Aurelius' work Meditations, written in Greek while on campaign between 170 and 180, is still revered as a literary monument to a government of service and duty. It serves as an example of how Aurelius approached the Platonic ideal of a philosopher-king and how he symbolized much of what was best about Roman civilization. The major sources for 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, claim to be written by a group of authors at the turn of the fourth century, but are in fact written by a single author (referred to here as "the biographer") from the later fourth century (c. 395). The later biographies and the biographies of subordinate emperors and usurpers are a tis...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=20155