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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 7: Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations — Stoicism 101

A private notebook written by an emperor on military campaign, the Meditations is a working manual of Stoic self-government — not a treatise but a tool for daily practice.
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.