As well as a military man, comfortable with brutal violence and relentless warfare, Marcus Aurelius was a writer and deep thinker. His Stoic philosophical jottings on life and death are now ...

resulting in the death of many livestock and famine in the city. The historian Cassius Dio, who upheld Marcus Aurelius as the paradigm of imperial rule, was not so blinkered as to recognize the ...

With this in mind, Marcus has decided to turn over his crown ... As a result, high treason and blind ambition lead to the death of Aurelius by poisoning, paving the way for a new era of oppression ...