SUMMARY Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus succeeded to power together in 161 CE, as the adopted heirs of Antonius Pius. At the start of their reign, Verus conducted a successful war against the ...

Want to see a destination from the best vantage? Up the altitude. Here are the top spots from which to appreciate the Eternal ...

The trouble with Rome is that it has so many treasures ... However, it’s the path to the back of the piazza (head behind the statue of Marcus Aurelius) that will have you drawing breath ...

That master was none other than Herodes Atticus, the former teacher of Marcus Aurelius ... with the statue of the deity being made of gold. Regilla was also named priestess of Demeter (the Greek deity ...

An Olympic equestrian athlete had his results from the Paris Olympics thrown out after he inadvertently tested positive for a banned substance after giving his sick dog eye drops. The ...

The Dartmouth equestrian team is galloping into the spotlight after an undefeated fall season that has vaulted them to the number-one spot in the Eastern College Athletic Conference. Since its ...

The work is a terracotta model of the statue Bernini made for a fountain in the Piazza Navona in Rome in 1653. It then came into the possession of an Italian family. The sculptor was an important ...

including remains of what was believed to be a 2,500-year-old temple to the love goddess Aphrodite near an Olympic equestrian venue. As for the discarded statue, an investigation has been launched ...

Pigs, donkeys and miniature horses followed. Within 24 hours, the Los Angeles Equestrian Center had been transformed into a modern-day Noah's Ark. Over the last week, it has sheltered hundreds of ...

The statue that dates back to the Hellenistic period, which covers the time between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the conquest of Egypt by Rome in 30 BC, according to the History ...