Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, better known as Elagabalus, ruled the Roman empire for just four years from 218AD to his assassination, aged 18, in 222AD. He became an increasingly controversial figure ...
In new BBC Radio 4 series Being Roman ... young Marcus Aurelius took lessons on how to be an emperor from his tutor Marcus Cornelius Fronto and from his adoptive father, the emperor Antoninus ...