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Temple of Hercules, Amman Citadel

location: Amman, Jordan

author: Jan Helebrant

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That's not Marcus, but St. Paul on the top - a later addition. The column itself dates to around 193 AD.

The Column of Marcus Aurelius is a Roman victory column in Piazza Colonna, Rome, Italy. It is a Doric column featuring a spiral relief: it was built in honour of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and modeled on Trajan's Column.

stone fragments of decorative building elements, artworks, sculptures etc., Amman Citadel

location: Amman, Jordan

author: Jan Helebrant

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Annia Galeria Faustina, the Elder (Faustina I or Faustina Major) c.100-140, was a Roman empress and wife of the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius (r.138-161). The emperor Marcus Aurelius (r.161-180) was her nephew and later became her adopted son, along with Emperor Lucius Verus (r.161-169 with Marcus Aurelius). She died early in the principate of Antoninus Pius, but continued to be prominently commemorated as a diva, posthumously playing a prominent symbolic role during his reign.

 

Found with the Marcus Aurelius, see www.flickr.com/photos/gballardice/54169952129/in/photostr...

 

Egyptian Museum, Tahrir Square; Inventory # JE 44672.

Temple of Hercules, Amman Citadel

location: Amman, Jordan

author: Jan Helebrant

www.juhele.blogspot.com

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Close-up on the head of a very large statue of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius

Temple of Hercules, Amman Citadel

location: Amman, Jordan

author: Jan Helebrant

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Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius

 

161-180 AD

 

Bronze

Rome 2011: The Capitoline Museums - Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius

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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

  

Marcus Aurelius

   

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Column of Marcus Aurelius, Piazza Colonna, Roma, IIs

Death - Marcus Aurelius Meditation - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives in Nanaimo, British Columbia where he works also as a writer and a personal trainer.

Dedicated to Rome’s protective triad: Jupiter Best and Greatest (Jupiter Optimus Maximus), Juno the Queen (Juno Regina), and Minerva the August (Minerva Augusta).

 

Patrons: Marcus Aurelius (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus) 121-180, Roman emperor (r.161-180) and

Lucius Verus (Lucius Aurelius Verus) 130-169 (r.161-169 with Marcus Aurelius).

Statue of Marcus Aurelius, Monumento di Vittorio Emanuele II

Camera used: Olympus IS-100

Film used: Agfapan APX 400

 

No post-processing, film has not been pushed or pulled

 

The Emperor. The Philosopher. The Stoic.

 

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

 

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

 

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.

 

Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave them if they were not yours.

 

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

 

Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what´s left and live it properly.

The original gilded bronze statue from the second century AD.

Possibly the last of the five "good" Emperors* that marked the zenith of the Roman Empire in the 2nd Century AD. The philosopher emperor, Marcus Aurelius.

 

This is the genuine statue, a copy being in the piazza outside the museum. The bronze work survived because for a long lime it was believed to be of a later, Christian, emperor rather than the confirmed pagan and stoic philosopher, Marcus Aurelius.

 

The Nervan-Antonian dynasty is a dynasty of seven consecutive Roman Emperors, who ruled over the Roman Empire from 96 to 192. These Emperors are Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Verus, and Commodus. However, of the last two, Lucius Verus was co-emperor with, and heir to, Marcus Aurelius but died before him; Commodus was far from good and on his death, plunged the Roman world in to Civil War.

 

See here for more details on Marcus Aurelius and here for more general information on the dynasty.

 

There was much discussion in the 19th Century over how ancient Romans pronounced Latin. It is now believed that "Ave Caesar" is not pronounced as it it written and spoken in the best Hollywood movies but as "our way kai sar".

death,

like birth,

is one of nature's secrets;

the same elements that have been combined

are then dispersed...for being endowed

with mind it is no anomaly,

not in any way inconsistent

with the plan of their creation.

-marcus aurelius

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Rome 2011: The Capitoline Museums - Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius

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Bas-relief of Marcus Aurelius and the sacrifice to Capitoline Jupiter

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