Marcus Aurelius Books List. Written as a series of personal notes in the last decade of his reign as roman emperor, the meditations were never intended for circulation. He was the last of the rulers known as the five good emperors (a term coined some 13 centuries later by niccolò machiavelli), and the last emperor of the pax romana (27 bc to 180 ad), an age of relative peace and stability for the.
Was adopted by the emperor antoninus pius and succeeded him in 161 (as joint emperor with adoptive brother lucius verus). The meditations, a philosophical text ; Meditations by marcus aurelius download read more.
And observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being;
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