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	Aurelius, Marcus - MSN Encarta
		Marcus Aurelius, whose original name was Marcus Annius Verus, was born in Rome on April 20, 121, the nephew by marriage of Antoninus Pius, later emperor.
		Marcus Aurelius became emperor in 161, and throughout his reign he was engaged in defensive wars on the northern and eastern frontiers of the empire.
		In his domestic policy Marcus Aurelius was a champion of the poor, for whom he founded schools, orphanages, and hospitals and alleviated the burden of taxes.
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	Marcus Aurelius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Marcus Aurelius died on March 17, 180 during the expedition against the Marcomanni and Quadi in the city of Vindobona (modern Vienna).
		Marcus Aurelius habitually took opium to sleep and to cope with the difficulty of military campaigns.
		Titus Hoenius Severus and Marcus Peducaeus Stloga Priscinus
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	Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - LoveToKnow 1911
		MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS (121-180), Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, was born in Rome A.D. 121, the date of his birth being variously stated as the 6th, 21st and 26th of April.
		Marcus had been, at the age of fifteen, betrothed to Fabia, the sister of Commodus; the engagement was broken off by Antoninus Pius, and he was betrothed to Faustina, the daughter of the latter.
		Marcus himself says, "To the gods I am indebted for having good grandfathers, good parents, a good sister, good teachers, good associates, good kinsmen and friends, nearly everything good." He was educated, not at school, but by tutors, Herodes Atticus and M. Cornelius Fronto in the usual curriculum of rhetoric and poetry;.
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	Marcus Aurelius
		Marcus Aurelius discovered Stoicism by the time he was 11 and from his early twenties he deserted his other studies for philosophy.
		Marcus Aurelius based his views in part on the later version, which was developed by the freed slave Epictetus (55-135).
		Marcus Aurelius worked on his philosophical summary or pensées during the last years of his life while on campaign along the marshlands of the Danube.
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	Emperor Marcus Aurelius: 161-180
		Marcus Aurelius Antoninus is regarded as one of the greatest emperors in Roman history; he is numbered among the "Five Good Emperors." Marcus ruled the vast empire from 161 to 180 AD.
		Marcus was enrolled in the Equestrians at the age of six and the next year he was given special permission to attend the priestly college of the Salii in Rome.
		Marcus was not free from crisis in his personal life either: his wife was notorious for sleeping around and his heir lacked all of the leadership skills for which Marcus was famous.
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	LitWeb.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Marcus Aurelius was born in Rome as a descendent of Roman ancestors.
		Marcus Aurelius based his views in part on the later version, which was developed by the freed slave Epictetus (55-135).
		Marcus Aurelius worked on his philosophical summary or pensées during the last years of his life while on campaign along the marshlands of the Danube.
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	aurelius
		The future emperor Marcus Aurelius was born in the year 121 AD in the city of Rome into a wealthy Spanish family.
		Marcus Aurelius was very close to Antonius and their relationship was like that of a father and son.
		Marcus Aurelius was often considered by many to be the last of "the five good emperors" and,after his reign, the empire started on a rapid decline.
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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
		His difficulties were immeasurably increased by the devastation wrought by the plague carried westward by the returning legions of Verus, by famine and earthquakes, and by inundations which destroyed the vast granaries of Rome and their contents.
		Marcus obtained a glorious victory as a result of this extraordinary event, and his enemies were hopelessly overthrown.
		Marcus died at Vindobona or Sirmium in Pannonia.
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	Marcus Aurelius
		Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was born Marcus Annius Verus in C.E. 121 on the 26th April while Hadrian was emperor.
		At the age of seventeen, Marcus Annius was adopted by his uncle, the new emperor, Aurelius Antoninus Pius, who had been adopted by the emperor Hadrian on the condition that he [Pius] adopt Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.
		Marcus Aurelius Antoninus died at the age of 58 on the 17th of March, 180 of an infectious disease.
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	Marcus Aurelius
		Marcus Aurelius died on March 17, 180 during the expedition against the Marcomanni in the city of Vindobona (modern Vienna).
		A well preserved bronze equestrian sculpture of Marcus Aurelius, which during the Middle Ages had stood in the Lateran Palace in Rome, was relocated in 1538 to the Piazza del Campidoglio (Capitoline Hill); currently the original is inside the Musei Capitolini, while a copy is on display in the square.
		However, shown without weapons or armor, Marcus Aurelius seems to be a bringer of peace rather than a military hero, for this is how he saw himself and his reign.
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	Marcus Aurelius
		If Marcus Aurelius' reign was to be one of almost constant warfare, then it stands in stark contrast to his being a deeply intellectual man of a peaceful nature.
		If Marcus Aurelius saw in his empire the union of the people of the civilized world, then the Christians were dangerous extremists who sought to undermine this union for the sake of their own religious beliefs.
		Marcus Cassius, the governor of Syria who had been appointed to the command of the east of the empire, was hailed emperor by his troops.
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	Who was Marcus Aurelius?/The Real Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Marcus Annius Verus was the son of Annius Verus and Domitia Lucilla.
		Marcus was born in Rome in 121 AD and his soon became recognized by the emperor for his fine qualities.
		Marcus' greatest trial was his son Commodus, who succeeded him in a disastrous reign that rivalled Nero's for corruption and cruelty.
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	Roman Emperors - DIR Marcus Aurelius
		Marcus recommended to Commodus continuation of the war, but the new emperor was eager to return to Rome and the ease and luxury of the imperial court and entered into a peace agreement.
		The famous equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, which survived the centuries near San Giovanni in Laterano because the rider was identified as Constantine, no longer greets the visitor to the Capitoline, where Michelangelo had placed it in the sixteenth century.
		Marcus dedicated a temple to her honor and had the name of the city changed to Faustinopolis.
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	Marcus Aurelius worldwidebase
		Marcomannen en Quaden) aan de Midden-Donau, die Marcus Aurelius, met tussenpozen, tot zijn dood toe moest afslaan (afgebeeld op de reliëfs van de Marcus Aurelius-zuil te Rome); een bijna ondraaglijke financiële belasting, met algemene verarming was het gevolg.
		Toen hij stierf, volgde Commodus, een van de weinige in leven gebleven kinderen uit zijn gelukkig huwelijk met Faustina, hem zonder oppositie op; naar het later heette, in strijd met een (achteraf geconstrueerd) ‘adoptiesysteem’.
		A.S.L. Farquharson, The meditations of Marcus Aurelius (2 dln., 1944, 21968); W. Theiler, Kaiser Marc Aurel, Wege zu sich selbst (1951; m.
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	Marcus Aurelius
		The Emperor appointed Aurelius to a priesthood in 129 and supervised his education, which was entrusted to the best professors of literature, rhetoric, and philosophy of the time.
		Aurelius was one of the most intelligent and noble of all Roman emperors, but his tenure would be marked by poor judgment and even poorer consequences.
		Aurelius' melancholic writings reveal a depressed and lonely man who longed to retire to a simpler way of life in the country.
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	Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) - ReligionFacts
		Marcus Aurelius died on March 17, 180 during the expedition against the Marcomanni in the city of Vindobona (today Vienna).
		Marcus Aurelius was emperor from A.D. 161 to 180.
		The policy adopted by Marcus Aurelius towards the Christian church cannot be separated from the education which led him to embrace Stoicism, and the long training which he had, after he had attracted the notice of Hadrian and been adopted by Antoninus Pius, in the art of ruling.
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	Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
		Marcus Aurelius was a good ruler, so his philosophy was of some day-to-day use, but he also seems to have been a somewhat withdrawn intellectual (beating himself up about his intellectuality).
		Marcus Aurelius had some sense of style and presentation, and while some of the exhortations (especially the repeated ones) can be wearing the book is neatly presented.
		Marcus Aurelius -- a limerick sequence (at the
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	Column of Marcus Aurelius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Column of Marcus Aurelius, (Latin: Columna Centenaria Divorum Marci et Faustinae), a Doric column, with a spiral relief, built in honour of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and modeled on Trajan's Column.
		This square was either between the temple of Hadrian (probably the Hadrianeum) and the temple of Marcus Aurelius (dedicated by his son Commodus, of which nothing now remains - it was probably on the site of Palazzo Wedekind), or within the latter’s sacred precinct, of which nothing remains.
		The spiral picture relief tells the story of Marcus Aurelius’ Danubian or Marcomannic wars, waged by him from 166 to his death.
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	Marcus Aurelius
		It has been assumed on the strength of a passage in Capitolinus that Aurelius married Faustina in 246, but the passage is not clear, and other evidence points strongly to 140; at all events it seems certain that a daughter was born to him in 140.
		Aurelius was from that point forward undisputed master of the empire, during one of the most troubled periods of its history.
		The morality of Marcus Aurelius cannot be said to have been new when it was given to the world.
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	Marcus Aurelius
		Marcus Aurelius (originally Marcus Annius Catilius Severus) was born in Rome on April 26, AD 121 into a distinguished and wealthy family originating from Hispania.
		Marcus was apparently so devoted to academic pursuits and his demeanor so serious and honest that Hadrian affectionately dubbed him 'Verissimus' meaning most truthful (which was later dropped with his ‘coming of age’ around 15 years old and changed to Verus).
		Marcus was previously engaged to the daughter (Ceonia Fabia) of this heir, one Lucius Ceionius Commodus, and certainly by no coincidence the young man was firmly entrenched as a member of the extended imperial family.
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	Term Paper on Marcus Aurelius
		Marcus Aurelius Even today, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is read by every class from kings to common people.
		Marcus Aurelius was born on April 20, 121 AD into a family of royalty.
		Aurelius believed that even posthumous fame was short-lived, for a person’s named is never carried from generation to generation.
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	Marcus Aurelius Antoninius
		Aurelius was admitted to the Senate, and then twice the consulship.
		Marcus Aurelius's melancholic writings reveal that the public duties depressed him and he wanted to retire to live a simple country life.
		Aurelius was wanted to be untouched by passion, and generous by nature rather than by calculation.
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	AllRefer.com - Marcus Aurelius (Ancient History, Rome, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Marcus Aurelius (Marcus Aelius Aurelius Antoninus)[mAr´kus OrE´lEus] Pronunciation Key, 121–180, Roman emperor, named originally Marcus Annius Verus.
		Devoted to his duty and humanitarian in his conception of it, Marcus Aurelius was concerned with improving living conditions for the poor, particularly minors.
		The virtuous character of Marcus Aurelius is revealed in his letters to his tutor Fronto.
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	marcus aurelius roman history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Unfortunately, Marcus Aurelius broke with the tradition of adopting the best man for the job, and passed the Empire on to his own son; the dynasty soon came to an end.
		Marcus ruled during difficult times; famine and plague hurt Rome within, and barbarians were pushing back the borders from without.
		Marcus Aurelius is best known as the philosopher-emperor who wrote down his "meditations" in Greek; they are among the best examples of Stoic philosophy which we have.
	www.ga.k12.pa.us /academics/MS/8th/romanhis/aurelius.htm (116 words)

	Island of Freedom - Marcus Aurelius
		Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was the Emperor of Rome from 161 until his death.
		Marcus Aurelius was educated by the best tutors in Rome and was a devotee of Stoicism.
		As a philosopher Aurelius believed that a divine providence had placed reason in man, and it was in the power of man to be one with the rational purpose of the universe.
	www.island-of-freedom.com /AURELIUS.HTM (445 words)

	The Olympics of the Mind (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		MARCUS AURELIUS, Roman emperor from 161 to 180 CE, was the last of the great Stoic philosophers.
		Nicknaming him Verissimus, meaning ‘the most truthful’, Hadrian made Marcus a priest at the tender age of eight, and betrothed him to the daughter of Lucius Ceionius Commodus when he was fifteen.
		During these many wars Marcus would return to his tent, under the cold gloom of a foreign sky, weary from another day of shouldering his staggering imperial duties, and take up a pen to jot down his private thoughts on the place of human beings in the universe.
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