Marcus Aurelius: Spoiler Alert!

How we created a graphic novel about Stoicism

Nov 8, 2022

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He dies at the end. Actually, he dies at the beginning. We borrowed that idea from How to Think Like a Roman Emperor when writing the script for Verissimus, because it made it much easier to structure the story of Marcus Aurelius’ life by embedding it within a framing story about his death. So this is how the book begins…

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