Lucius Verus

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) was a Roman Emperor from about i'll say 161 to about 180. He is until this today still considered one of the most influential and important Stoic philosophers of history. This book from what I have seen is almost like a personal notebook or one could say a diary; hey were not intended to be for publication and along with that he called them a “Writing To Myself”. He died from what is believed to be cancer or a plague, furthermore going into the overall summary of the book we start from book one, which in this book the sections aren't called chapters. In book 1 Aurelius basically is paying homage to all of those he feels has had an impact on his life, those he feels he is indebted to. One of the primary people being his grandfather for teaching his to be “candid, modest, and even-tempered”. Along with His mother and father for teaching him to be humble, calm, generous, and not someone who is so materialistic, last but not least his wife for being affectionate. Book 2 and 3 basically touch up on morals of our everyday lives and how we should carry ourselves and look at people and the world overall. In book 2 he explains that in life we are going to come across some terrible people, but we have our faults too and that we aren’t perfect ourselves. For those of bad nature that we might meet in life we shouldn’t be angry with them, “for we are all just bits of blood, bones, and breath.” Our lives is fleeting away before our…

On January 7, 2015 Empire premiered on Fox. The show quickly gained a strong fan base. Not far into the first season Empire was ranked one of Fox’s number hit television shows. Empire is about the hip hop and entertainment company, Empire Entertainment, and the drama among the members of the founders’ family. It is about their fight for control of the company. It stars Terrence Howard as Lucious Lyon, who was a former drug dealer turned hip hop mogul and CEO of Empire. After Lucious learns that…

So in this paper I will explain the following questions: What is a roman tribune, and what is their role in society. Why is Marullus and Flavius worried about Caesar? I will answer these questions by the information from the book. Also I will answer them by my own thinking and reasoning. The Role of a Roman Tribune The first question I will be discussing is what a roman tribune is? A roman tribune is an officer or officers that are elected each year to serve over the military. They are…

Sulla provided the perfect example for future generals in how to use their army for personal haven. This style of leadership increased the emergence of a more mercenary army where the soldiers wish for enrichment left them increasingly willing to follow generals into war regardless of what they may have represented. Sulla essentially ended the days of Republican loyalty, “Rome, with the Senate at the head, could no longer command the allegiance of Romans.” Veterans that fought for Sulla…

marriage customs. The Germans adopted a strict moral code that only allowed them to only take one wife which was not typical of barbarian culture. (p.46-47 Tacitus) The Germans wore loose fitting garments and the only to distinguish the nobility from the presents was by the tighter clothing that they wore. Like in the Agricola in the Germany Tacitus used his writing to illustrate to the reader how other less civilized cultures and even members of their own culture were holding themselves to a…

The Contradiction of Brutus Despite his primary goal to prevent Rome from falling into the hands of a dictator who would ruin Rome from the inside out, Brutus himself ironically acts like a totalitarian, tyrannical, despot. Even though Brutus meets up with the other patricians planning to kill Caesar because of his threat as a king, Brutus ironically acts like a king when he overrides the other’s ideas to enforce his own logic. When Cassius confronts him in the second scene, Brutus first reveals…

Lucretia Mott, formerly known as Lucretia Coffin, was born to Thomas Coffin Jr. and Anna Folger on January third, 1793 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. For the daughter of a Sea Captain and a Shoemaker, she grew up beyond expectations. Mott was one of history’s great female role models. She was an Abolitionist, Quaker, Women's Rights Activist, Social Reformer, and an overall strong and inspired woman. Throughout her life Mott lead by example and headed many expeditions of freedom, weather that was…

volcano was about five miles away from Pompeii (O'Connor chapter 1). Around two-thousand people were killed inside the city when the eruption occurred (O'Connor chapter 1). Pompeii was also near another town and it suffered along with it: “The town of Herculaneum, a mere six kilometers from the crater of the volcano, suffered speedy destruction in the early hours of the second day of the eruption, as the tremendous pyroclastic blasts and surges swept down the mountainside, engulfing the town…

A roman tribune is a Roman official whose task is to protect the people against oppression (Lendering). By oppression they mean protection against any people who try and come to bring them down or to take them over and have them under their authority. In the fifth century, the republicans were controlled by aristocrats called patricians (Lendring). What this did is caused great tensions with two groups: the poor people, who had to request to a patrician judge against random decisions…

Has anyone ever wondered what a Roman tribune is? “A Roman tribune is an officer or magistrate chosen by the people, to protect them from the oppression of the patricians, or nobles and to defend their liberties against any attempts that might be made upon them by the senate or consuls” (Alchin). The leader of a tribe was known as the ‘tribunus’, which is ‘tribune’ in Latin. A tribune has ten ordinary people in it. These ten people hold a good deal of power and have the ability to dismiss any…