{"id":95203,"date":"2021-09-16T10:54:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T08:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=95203"},"modified":"2021-09-16T10:54:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T08:54:00","slug":"marcus-aurelius-as-young-man","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/marcus-aurelius-as-young-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcus Aurelius as young man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roman marble bust showing <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/marek-aureliusz\/\">Marcus Aurelius<\/a> as a youth. Object dated to the 2nd century CE. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As Marcus came from an aristocratic family, his career was bright and he could even challenge the highest state <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-constitution\/roman-republic\/roman-offices\/\">offices<\/a>. From literally boyhood age, he held higher and higher positions. Emperor <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/hadrian\/\">Hadrian<\/a> drew attention to the extremely prudent, serious and hardworking boy. At the age of 8, he appointed Marcus a priest of the ancient college of Salia, priests of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-religion\/gods-of-ancient-rome\/list-of-roman-gods\/mars\/\">Mars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The boy efficiently recited from memory the prayers from centuries ago, which at that time almost no one understood anymore. <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/hadrian\/\">Hadrian<\/a> jokingly called him &#8220;the Truest&#8221; (<em>Verissimus<\/em>), possibly because Marcus detested lying. <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/marcus-aurelius\/\">Marcus Aurelius<\/a>, at the age of 15, put on a men&#8217;s gown, and 2 years later he was adopted by <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/antoninus-pius\/\">Antoninus Pius<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dalej\"><a title=\"Biography of Marcus Aurelius\" href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/marek-aureliusz\/\">Biography of Marcus Aurelius<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40274,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[61],"class_list":["post-95203","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-artifact"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/95203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/95203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=95203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}