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3 giorni fa · Portrait of a Young Man Marcus Aurelius. The presence of this work, restored by Innocenzo Spinazzi, was first recorded in the Gallery in 1778. Both the head and bust, partly covered by a cloak fastened by a circular fibula on the right shoulder, are ancient but do not belong together.
6 giorni fa · Augustus, the first emperor, had nominally shared power with his colleagues, and a formal office of co-emperor (co-Augustus) had existed from Marcus Aurelius onward. Most recently, Emperor Carus and his sons had ruled together, albeit unsuccessfully.
3 giorni fa · The character of Marcus Aurelius in Gladiator is fairly historically accurate, depicting him as a competent and fair ruler who co-ruled alongside Lucius Verus. While Gladiator suggests that gladiators achieved celebrity status, they were actually seen as lowly and their purpose was to fight and die.
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5 giorni fa · But even more essential: paganism was abolished by Christianity almost everywhere in Europe more than 1,000 years ago, and a disruptive return to pre-Christian conditions would not only be unnatural, it would also completely misjudge the actual nature of that “abolition.”
5 giorni fa · Anglo-Saxon paganism, sometimes termed Anglo-Saxon heathenism, Anglo-Saxon pre-Christian religion, Anglo-Saxon traditional religion, or Anglo-Saxon polytheism refers to the religious beliefs and practices followed by the Anglo-Saxons between the 5th and 8th centuries AD, during the initial period of Early Medieval England.
3 giorni fa · By the end of the 6th century, enthusiasm for Christianity was leading Irishmen to devote themselves to a most austere existence as monks, as hermits, and as missionaries to pagan tribes in Scotland and the north of England and in a great area of west-central Europe, particularly between the Rhine, Loire, and Rhône rivers.
4 giorni fa · Marcus Aurelius was geen ochtendmens. Voordat er zelfhelpgoeroes waren, was er Marcus Aurelius. Hij werd geboren in 121 na Christus en mocht zichzelf vanaf zijn veertigste levensjaar keizer van het Romeinse Rijk noemen. Daarbij was Aurelius een filosoof die het stoïcisme aanhing.
