As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. This means if you click on a link and make a purchase, I may receive a small commission at no extra cost to you.
Historical person
121–180
Marcus Aurelius was Roman emperor from AD 161 to 180 and is remembered both as a ruler and as a Stoic philosopher. His reign was dominated by frontier wars, plague and the burdens of imperial duty reflected in his Meditations.
In Simon Turney’s Commodus, Marcus Aurelius prepares his son Commodus to inherit an empire strained by frontier war and epidemic disease. In Adam Lofthouse’s Shield of the Rising Sun, the Roman Empire under Marcus Aurelius. Other novels featuring Marcus Aurelius include Steven Saylor’s Dominus, Adam Lofthouse’s The Centurion’s Son, and Adam Lofthouse’s War in the Wilderness.
In non-fiction, Marcus Aurelius is discussed in Mary Beard’s Emperor of Rome. Mary Beard’s Emperor of Rome approaches the subject through court politics and dynastic power, empire, conquest and resistance, and social change and the pressures of ordinary life.
Historical context
Series
Path of Nemesis follows Albinus Silus from unwilling recruit to experienced Roman officer during the Marcomannic Wars. Set under Marcus Aurelius and the young Commodus, the series moves between frontier campaigns, family loss and the political future of the Nerva–Antonine dynasty.
All books in this series
The Roma Trilogy follows generations of the fictional Pinarius family across the long history of Rome. Roma begins with the city’s legendary foundation and continues through the Republic and the rise of Augustus; Empire carries the family through the Julio-Claudian, Flavian and adoptive-emperor periods; Dominus follows the later…
All books in this series
Non Fiction
Biographies, histories and other non-fiction are listed separately from the historical novels above.
