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Chapter 3: Seneca the Younger — Stoicism 101

A Roman statesman, playwright, and Stoic philosopher whose life of political peril and moral compromise makes his practical wisdom all the more credible.
Chapter 6: Marcus Aurelius — Stoicism 101

The Roman emperor who treated Stoicism as a daily discipline of self-government, leaving behind a private journal that became one of the most influential ethical texts ever written.
Chapter 15: The Rise of the Roman Republic — World History 101

Rome overthrows its kings in 509 B.C.E., builds a representative republic that gives the West its political vocabulary, and survives Hannibal of Carthage in the Punic Wars to dominate the Mediterranean.
Chapter 16: Rome Becomes an Empire — World History 101

Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, the Republic collapses, and Octavian outlasts Mark Antony and Cleopatra to become Augustus — the first emperor of Rome.
Chapter 17: Jesus Christ and His Times — World History 101

Roman-occupied Judaea, the Jewish search for a messiah, Jesus’s crucifixion under Pontius Pilate, and the explosive early spread of Christianity through Paul of Tarsus.
Chapter 19: The Pax Romana and Beyond — World History 101

Two centuries of Roman peace under the early emperors, the Imperial Crisis of the third century, Diocletian’s reforms, Constantine’s conversion, and five reasons the Western Empire eventually fell.