Marcus Aurelius
In Our Time: Philosophy
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Is There a Training for Rule?
I think that grief and anger are sometimes not only appropriate responses, but the only responses. I wanted to talk about the equestrian statue of marcus aurelius which stood on the capitaline hill from 15 38. It's one of the very, very few equestrian statues to have survived antiquity. Whent survived because it was mistaken for the emperor constantine for many centuries, and therefore preserved. So although the statue now sort of radiates this incredible stoic calm, we also nead to think about what it might have been like when it shows the triumphant emperor im trampling on his enemies.
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