Marcus Aurelius
In Our Time: Philosophy
The Politics of the Second Century, Marcus Aurelius
There was a huge overlap between these areas. Of course, some romans were always a bit worried about the greeks or being a bit too effeminate with their arts and their philosophy. But when we see marcus aurelius writing something like the meditations, he writes, of course in greek. So it's quite remarkable that there is this sort of fantasti fantasized version people. If you read greek novels of the period, they write as if rome didn't exist. They're as if they were living in a world of the fifth century b c. E.
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