Why should we be interested in a Roman emperor who lived 2,000 years ago? We can scarcely summon up any interest in the presidents, prime ministers and rulers of yesteryear unless they were political giants or monsters of evil. There can be many answers to this question, and not just in terms of the validity of studying history in general. Marcus Aurelius is the one figure of antiquity who still speaks to us today. We may thrill to the exploits of Alexander the Great, Hannibal or Caesar, and historical novelists may beguile us for a while with their reconstructions of Cicero or Julian (the only other figures from ancient history, apart from Caesar and Marcus Aurelius whose mental processes we know well), but the only voice from the Greco Roman world that still seems to have contemporary relevance is that of the man who ruled the Roman empire from 161 to 180 A.D. [download]
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