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#497 - Donald Robertson - The Stoicism Secrets Of Marcus Aurelius

Modern Wisdom

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The Culture of the Roman Empire

Maraus kanna grew up in the midle of that. His mum was connected with a greek orator called herodes atticus, who became an influential and famous sophist at the end of the period. He lunged at marcus like he was going to throttle him on something - but Marcus told his guards to stand down. This guy that we think of as a stoic or typical critics of these kin, pretentious intellectuals. Was also really horrible man with a really bad temper. And he became a family friend, sort of, kan a friend of me, in a way, for the rest of marcus's life.

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