The vivid, magisterial and long-awaited biography of Marcus
Aurelius -- the last of the "five good emperors" of the Roman
Empire.
Emperor Marcus Aurelius -- the embodiment of the philosopher's king
-- is the one figure of antiquity who still speaks vividly to us
today, over 2000 years after his death. We may thrill to the
exploits of Alexander the Great, Hannibal or Caesar, and historical
novelists may beguile us with their imaginative reconstructions of
this life or that, but the only voice from the Greco-Roman world
that still seems to have contemporary relevance is that of the man
who ruled the Roman Empire from 161 to 180 A.D. His book of
reflections, Meditations, continues to sell in large numbers in
numerous editions.
Though a persecutor of Christians, Marcus holds out the prospect of
spirituality for atheists, happiness without God, joy without
heaven and morality without religion. He truly was a man for all
seasons, and those seasons include the twenty-first century.
His reign foreshadowed the eventual decline and fall of the Roman
Empire, and his life itself represents the fulfillment of Plato's
famous dictum that mankind will prosper only when philosophers are
rulers and rulers philosophers. Marcus Aurelius by acclaimed
historian Frank McLynn, promises to be the definitive biography of
this monumental historical figure -- now known very widely through
the Oscar-winning film Gladiator.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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