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The Colosseum
"As long as the Colosseum, there will Rome when the Colosseum falls, Rome will also fall, but when Rome falls, the world will fall"
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![]() Since childhood, the future emperor began to dress and behave like philosophers, getting used to study wound in the pallium (the Greek dress proper, cape, hood) and sleep on the floor. At 12 he began to sleep naked on the bed and began a diet and abstinence (including sexual) so severe that his health suffered in the end. But this did not stop him then being a soldier among soldiers and to share efforts and hardships during the long years of war at the border towards the Germans. When he was crowned, all the philosophers of the Empire rejoiced, seeing in him the creator of Utopia.
Marcus proved respectful of the prerogatives of the Senate like no emperor. He handed it to representatives and senators judicial appointments and never allowed that became part of the Senate of dubious characters, instead favoring the entry even of those who could not aspire to available funds. He gave prosecutors of regions and roads may punish those collectors who had extorted the taxpayers more than they should. If we consider that those who could threaten to break their necks were slaves, then to the Romans nothing more than things, we understand the attention of the emperor of all men he considered brothers, regardless of their condition and intended to divide the tribulations of life. When the war bled 'the treasury, the emperor, not wanting to balance the books by tax increases at the expense of the provincials, put up for auction in the forum of Trajan valuable personal property (cup of gold and crystal, china, evening dresses and gems). At the end of the war, restored the balance, Marco authorized anyone wants to resell the purchased goods and recover their money. Among other things, Mark was also prescribed that the performances of pantomimes began late and lasted all day not to distract people from their occupations. The emperor was also in charge of city traffic by prohibiting horse riding and carriage within the city walls.
He failed to realize its ideals of equality and liberty Stoics because the need to control local finances led him to the construction of a bureaucratic class that soon took upon itself the rights and privileges and formed as a closed class (as the worst bureaucracy today) . After his death was erected the magnificent column (42 m high.) That is in Piazza Colonna in front of Palazzo Chigi to commemorate their victories on the Danube in front of Marcus Aurelius Germanic. The column was topped by a statue of the Emperor, but now there is mail to S. Paul (the same fate on Trajan's Column which was placed a statue of St. Peter). |
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