Bridgeman/ACI But Marcus Aurelius’s work adds his own original voice to Stoicism’s philosophical tradition. He gravitated to the school of thought and came to believe that perception is the ...

contingent on Antoninus adopting Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus as his successors. This adoption secured Marcus' path to the throne. Column of Marcus Aurelius was erected in AD 180 to commemorate ...

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The Column of Marcus Aurelius stands in the Piazza Colonna in Rome and was both modelled on - and improved upon - the earlier Trajan's Column. A helical frieze depicts the Marcomannic Wars of ...

This embedding of Stoic principles, this turning of theory into practice, is what Marcus appears to be doing in and by the Meditations. This kind of reflective journaling is not original to Epictetus.

More than eighteen hundred years after his demise, probably from plague, we’re still talking about Marcus Aurelius. In fact, we’re going on about him more than ever. That’s largely due to ...

Robertson, a founding member of the organization Modern Stoicism and the president and founder of the Plato’s Academy Centre nonprofit, is the author of Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor In the ...