Editors’ note: The following passage is excerpted from Book III of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, translated by Aaron ...
Marcus Aurelius has been acknowledged as a sage. But his reign was marked as much by military affairs as it was by philosophy.
In the middle of the second century CE, the most powerful man in the Western world sat in the legionary fortress of Carnuntum, by the River Danube, contemplating the fact that one day nobody would ...
After the three Flavian emperors—Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian—came the “Five Good Emperors” of the Nerva-Antonine dynasty: Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and our man Marcus Aurelius (d. 180 ...
Consider the fortunes of Marcus Aurelius, ruler of Rome from A.D. 161 to 180 and follower of the Stoic ethical creed. He never meant to be a published author; the thoughts he set down, in Greek, were ...
Quote of the day by Marcus Aurelius: Marcus Aurelius, a Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, led during difficult times. He believed in service and self-control, not ego. His personal writings, ...
Marcus Aurelius was the Roman Emperor from March 7, 161, until his death on March 17, 180. He lived and died over 2,000 years ago, but his legacy lives on in “Mediations,” a series of twelve notebooks ...
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