Marcus’ chief philosophical influence was Stoic: in Book Personal information, frequently concerning illnesses, births, and Philosophy written soon after Marcus became Emperor, and throughout, Smoke and dust) written when Marcus was still in hisĢ0s, an exchange about the value or disvalue of rhetoric to What seem to be rhetorical exercises (for example, pieces in praise of sleep, and Marcus was twenty and continued into his imperial years. Including a lengthy correspondence with his rhetoric teacher and Some edicts, official letters, and some private correspondence, Aside from the Meditations Marcus’ extant works include Written during the last years of his military campaigns. Of the work for which he is famous, the Meditations, was Northern Italy and Egypt, and an outburst of the plague at least part His reign was troubled by attacks from Germany, rebellions in Marcus Aurelius succeeded his adoptive father Antoninus Pius as Emperor of Rome in 161 CE and reigned until his own death in 180. Born in 121 CE and educated extensively in rhetoric and philosophy,
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