Tag Archives: Hadrian

Suetonius: The Twelve Caesars

by Ed Whelan, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom He is considered one of the fathers of the genre of biography. He is regarded as one of the most important writers of the Latin Silver Age in literature, and his collection of biographies of Roman emperors has been enormously influential. Yet who was Suetonius? What was the

Written on March 22, 2022 at 5:43 pm, by Whelan

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Categories: Historians, People

Tags: biography, Hadrian, Roman history, Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars

The Life of Marcus Aurelius: Part II

Written by Katherine Smyth, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom One Empire, Two Emperors Life changed drastically for Marcus Aurelius, and Rome in 161 when Antoninus Pius died, leaving Marcus effectively as the new Emperor. However, although he was granted the name Augustus and the title imperator, and was elected Pontifex Maximus, Marcus appears to have taken

Written on March 6, 2020 at 9:50 am, by Katherine Smyth

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Categories: Leaders

Tags: Commodus, Emperor, Faustina, Hadrian, Lucius Verus, Marcus Aurelius, Roman empire

The Life of Marcus Aurelius: Part I

Written by Katherine Smyth Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom A Man of Many Names Marcus was born on the 26th of April, in Rome, in the year 121 A.D.. He bore many different versions of his name whilst growing up; these changed as his familial status was altered first by the death of his father, then

Written on March 4, 2020 at 8:06 am, by Katherine Smyth

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Categories: Philosophers

Tags: Antoninus Pius, Aurelius, Diogenetus, Domitia Lucilla, Faustina, Hadrian, Marcus Annius Verus, Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Roman empire, The Meditations

The Birth of the Biography

By Ben Potter, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom What springs to mind when we think about literature of the Ancient World? Maybe it’s Homer’s Achilles dragging the corpse of Hector around Troy or Sophocles’ Oedipus stabbing out his polluted eyes. Perhaps it’s Plato’s Socrates holding forth or Herodotus’ Leonidas and his 300 Spartans. It even might

Written on July 5, 2019 at 12:38 pm, by Ben Potter

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Categories: History

Tags: Antony, Aristotle, Augustus, biography, Cleopatra, Funeral Oration, Hadrian, Herodotus, History, Homer, Josephus, Julius Caesar, Odyssey, pericles, Plutarch, Septimius Severus, Suetonius, Sulla and Sallust, Tacitus, Theopompus, Thucydides, Tiberius, Timaeus, Xenophon

The tainted glory of the gladiator

By Ben Potter The sun rises high over Rome’s Amphitheatrum Flavium, the mightiest arena in the world. Only the colossal statue of Nero, which one-day will lend the stadium its eternal pseudonym, dwarfs it. The 50,000 strong crowd of men and women, young and old, rich and poor, are tightly coiled; one giant organism ready

Written on June 27, 2018 at 8:14 am, by plato

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Categories: Traditions

Tags: Ancient Rome, arenarii, Caligula, Claudius, Commodus, gladiator, gladius, Hadrian, Spartacus

Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD)

Marcus Aurelius was a Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD. For the first 8 years of his rule he was co emperor with Lucius Verus. He would be remembered as an influential stoic philosopher as well as a formidable emperor. This interesting combination of philosopher and leader made Marcus Aurelius a memorable historical figure

Written on July 15, 2013 at 3:59 pm, by Van Bryan

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Categories: Leaders

Tags: Hadrian, Marcus Annius Verus, Marcus Aurelius, Rome