The Military Metaphor in Marcus Aurelius
Soldiering as a Philosophy of Life in Stoicism
Soldiering as a Philosophy of Life in Stoicism
In one of the most famous passages of The Meditations, the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius writes that everything physical is as transient as a stream rushing past us, everything belonging to the mind is as insubstantial as vapour and deceptive as smoke or mist, and that…
…life is …
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