Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life

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Marcus Aurelius on Socrates

Marcus Aurelius on Socrates

What the Stoic Emperor Learned from the Athenian Philosopher

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Dec 03, 2024
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In 175 AD, probably for the first time in his life, in his mid-fifties, the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, set foot in Athens. It was in fact a pilgrimage for him. During of the “War of Many Nations” he’d been fighting along the Danube frontier, he had taken a sacred oath that he would travel to Athens, if victorious, and be initiated into the Eleusinia…

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