Marcus Aurelius on the Danube
“The Roman frontier in Pannonia, 173 CE. The philosopher-emperor writes in his tent beside a campfire after a skirmish with Marcomanni. Foreground shows wax tablets, an oil lamp, and a folding camp stool; midground reveals legionaries banking the fire and an aquilifer cleaning the standard; the Danube glints through a misty pine forest behind palisades.”
