Several ancient Roman emperors loved Greece. As the Roman Empire consolidated, Greek culture, literature, politics, and art ...
The statue, known in Cleveland for many years as “Draped Male Figure” or “The Philosopher,” is valued at $20 million and is ...
Mary at the Marcus Aurelius statue Amy Richlin from UCLA is writing a book on these early letters from the emperor. She agrees he was “certainly immature” but believes this is all about the ...
In the complaint, CMA argued that the statue could represent the Greek tragedian Sophocles or Roman emperors Lucius Verus or Marcus Aurelius, but that “without the head of the Statue ...
The headless bronze statue was thought to represent Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. New scientific testing has concluded it was likely looted from Turkey in the 1960s. After 18 months of uncertainty, ...
Rome is in the midst of a major uplift with billions of euros pouring in from a European Union pandemic recovery fund just as the Vatican City celebrates a jubilee.
But however you arrived there, it was on March 17th, 180AD that the emperor Marcus Aurelius died, an event at least as ominous as the assassination of Caesar two centuries earlier. If you've seen ...