1. Battle between gladiators (Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy,Alinari/The Bridgeman Art Library)
2. Circus games (Museo della Civiltà Romana, Rome, Italy,Giraudon/The Bridgeman Art Library)
3. Initiation into the mysterious Dionysian cult (© Photoservice Electa/AISA)
4. Preparations for a banquet (Louvre, Paris, France/The Bridgeman Art Library)
5. Herodes Atticus (Louvre, Paris, France/The Bridgeman Art Library)
6. Galen of Pergamum (© Photoservice Electa/AISABibliotheque Municipale de Laon)
7. Marcus Aurelius (akg-images/Rabatti-Domingie)
8. Marcus Aurelius receiving the symbol of power (Alinari Archives-Anderson Archive, Florence)
9. Decree dated 177 A.D. by Marcus Aurelius and Commodus (The Art Archive/Museo della Civiltà Romana Rome/Gianni DagliOrti)
10. Marcus Aurelius, his wife Faustina the Younger and the goddess Rome (Alinari Archives-Anderson Archive, Florence)
11. Faustina the Younger (akg-images/British Library)
12. A gilded bronze equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius (© Michael Juno/Alamy)
13. Marcus Aurelius dispensing welfare to the people (Alinari Archives-Anderson Archive, Florence)
14. Marcus Aurelius sacrifices to the Capitoline Jupiter (akg-images/Erich Lessing) Section Two
15. Richard Harris in Gladiator (Dreamworks/Universal/The Kobal Collection/Buitendijk, JAAP)
16. Alec Guinness the The Fall of the Roman Empire (© Rank Organisation/Samuel Bronston Productions/The Ronald GrantArchive)
17. Lucius Verus (Alinari Archives-Anderson Archive, Florence)
18. Parthian warrior (The Art Archive/Archaeological MuseumTeheran/Gianni Dagli Orti)
19. The Triumph of Marcus Aurelius by Giandomenico Tiepolo (Galleria Sabauda, Turin, Italy/The Bridgeman Art Library)
20. Man being eaten by lions (The Art Archive/Archaeological Museum El-Jem Tunisia/Gianni Dagli Orti)
21. Persecution of Christians (akg-images)
22. Marcus Aurelius departing for war (Alinari Archives-Anderson Archive, Florence)
23. Marcus Aurelius receives defeated Barbarians (akg-images/Nimatallah)
24. Marcomannic prisoners before Marcus Aurelius (akg-images/Erich Lessing)
25. Romans in battle against the Barbarians (© The Print Collector/Heritage-Images/Imagestate)
26. ‘Rain Miracle’ (akg-images/Museo della Civiltà, Rome)
27. Transport of German prisoners and the spoils of war (Alinari/The Bridgeman Art Library)
28. The beheading of German nobles (Piazza Colonna, Rome, Italy, Alinari/The Bridgeman Art Library)
29. Marcus Aurelius enters Rome in his triumphal chariot (akg-images/Erich Lessing)
30. Commodus as Hercules (Photo Scala, Florence)
31. The Death of Marcus Aurelius by Eugene Delacroix (© Photoservice Electa/Leemage)