Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

Marcus Aurelius as Historian

Stoicism and History as a Meditation on Death

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Donald J. Robertson
Dec 07, 2020
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Stoicism and History as a Meditation on Death

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In a letter, believed to have been written in 139 AD, when Marcus Aurelius was just eighteen, his rhetoric master, Marcus Cornelius Fronto says in passing “I gave you advice on what you should do to prepare yourself for writing a work of history, since that is what you wi…

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