Cultural References
The statue is depicted on the reverse of the Italian €0.50 euro coin, designed by Roberto Mauri.
A replica of the statue has been located on the campus of Brown University in the United States since 1908.
The statue was formerly clad in gold. An old local myth says that the statue will turn gold again on the Judgement Day.
Allegedly the Equestrian Statue of King George III of England which stood in New York City's Bowling Green until 1776 when it was thrown down and the lead turned into musket balls for George Washington's army was based upon the Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius.
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“A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others, thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least.”
—Jacques Barzun (b. 1907)