Marcus Aurelius
In Our Time: Philosophy
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I Was Quite Startled Reading the Correspondence With Fronto
i hadn't actually read the correspondence with fronto before preparing for this programme. i was, i was pretty startled reading it for the first time. Marcus is interested in philosophy from about 11 or 12. He's got stoic mentals from quite early on, in his teens. So it's very much not from its fronte's charaer and personality that's really appealing to him. And as it said to me, it did read very romanticallywell, i think it's quite important that the letters survive, and they are not going to be deeply embarrassing to the emperor. I think it's a heightened emotional sense that gives us some idea of the sensitivity and intimacy that you might
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