Quotes from the Roman Empire

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Here you have some quotes by Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. Apart from his political career, he was an outstanding stoic philosopher and wrote a book with his thoughts called Meditations. A good reading to learn from our ancestors the Romans.

Source: http://marcusaureliusquotes.blogspot.com.es/2013/08/if-you-are-distressed-marcus-aurelius.html

Source: http://meetville.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/page1

 Source: http://www.pinterest.com/aikolactaotao/philosophy/

Source: http://www.quotesvalley.com/everything-we-hear-is-an-opinion-not-a-fact-everything-we-see-is-a-perspective-not-the-truth-38/

If you want to read Marcus Aurelius Meditations, here you have two links to his book. Its text is in the public domain:

- In English:

http://www.imperivm.org/cont/textos/txt/marco-aurelio_meditaciones.html

- In Spanish:

http://classics.mit.edu/Antoninus/meditations.html

Some videos about the Roman Empire and Hispania

These are some interesting videos about the Roman Empire and romanization:

- The fisrt one includes an animated map where you can watch the evolution of the Roman Empire throughout time:

- This one is the video we were watching in class last Friday. It's called The Ancient Roman Empitre in the West and includes the effects of romanization in Gaul and Hispania

-This is a link to a Youtube channel called Ruta Bética Romana. They have a lot of videos in Spanish about the Roman presence in the Baetica province. You can learn a lot from all the Andalusian cities  in Roman times: 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBnVYUmPpWYIVDDYW8ods6A


- And finally a video in Spanish about how to make garum, the sauce the Romans loved: