One of Rome’s most famous rulers, the philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus is widely considered a model stoic, an ideal representative of …
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Marcus Aurelius: Rome's Philosopher-Emperor
Marcus Aurelius is widely known as the philosopher-emperor, but he spent most of his life on the battlefield. Was he really the greatest emperor Rome ever had?
In his famous work, Republic, the Greek philosopher Plato argued that the ideal city state should be ruled by a ‘Philosopher-King’. Since then, many …
By chance (and a sprinkling of confusion) Marcus Aurelius is perhaps the most well-known Roman emperor for visitors to the city today. In the center …
