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Marcus Aurelius : A Biography

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MARCUS AURELIUS is one of the best recorded individuals from antiquity. Even
his face became more than usually familiar: the imperial coinage displayed his
portrait for over forty years, from the clean-shaven young heir of Antoninus to the
war-weary, heavily bearded ruler who died at his post in his late fifties. For his
childhood and early youth we depend largely on anecdote and reconstruction. Then
in the correspondence of his tutor Fronto, spanning nearly three decades, we have a
series of vivid and revealing glimpses into the family life and preoccupations of
Marcus and the court. But what made Marcus Aurelius a household name was the
private notebook that he kept in his last ten years, the Meditations. The ‘philosopher
in the purple’ has never lacked admirers, ancient or modern. Critics are hard to find
– although the author of the Historia Augusta was able to invent a notable one, in his
fictional life of Avidius Cassius. Gibbon (in 1783) paid sober tribute to a man
‘severe to himself, indulgent to the imperfection of others, just and beneficent to all
mankind.’ Eighty years later, Matthew Arnold – inspired by reading a new English
version of the Meditations – was unrestrained: ‘The acquaintance of a man like
Marcus Aurelius is an imperishable benefit’. Marcus was ‘perhaps the most
beautiful figure in history. . . . Besides him, history presents one or two other
sovereigns eminent for their goodness, such as Saint Louis or Alfred. But Marcus
Aurelius has, for us moderns, this great superiority in interest over Saint Louis or
Alfred, that he lived and acted in a state of society modern by its essential
characteristics, in an epoch akin to our own, in a brilliant centre of civilisation. . . .

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