The Meditations of Marcus

Comodus is one of the five bad emperors in Roman history. But apart from his megalomaniac son, marcus had plenty to crow about. He waged war against the parthians and campaigned against germanic barbarians along the danube river. It was here on the frontier that he supposedly composed a set of notes to himself - commonly referred to as the meditations. They are more than plausible as a work of self examination and philosophical therapy.