Is That Really What's Going on With Marcus?

Marcus praises 17 different people. They are friends, the family members of chites, all of them. One of them is a woman, his mother. He doesn't praise his most famous teacher. That would be really striking to roman readers. But i think it's great that for me, i always loved the fact that here you have the roman emperor who was the most powerful man of the time, and one of his idols,. or one of the people that he quoted was a slave.