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Marcus Aurelius is said to have been fond of quoting Plato’s dictum, and those who have written about him have rarelybeen able to resist applying it to Marcus himself. And indeed, if we seek Plato’s philosopher-king in the flesh we could hardly do better than Marcus, the ruler of the RomanEmpire for almost two decades and author of the immortal Meditations. Yet the title is one that Marcus himself would surely have rejected. He never thought of himself as a philosopher. He would have claimed to be, at best, a diligent student and a very imperfect practitioner of a philosophydeveloped by others. As for the imperial throne, that came almost by accident. When Marcus Annius Verus was born, in A.D. 121, bystanders might have predicted a distinguishedcareer in the Senate or the imperial administration. They could hardly have guessed that he was destined for the imperial purple, or seen in their mind’s eye the lonely bronze horseman whose upraised hand greets us from the Capitoline hill in Rome across two thousand years. Marcus sprang from a distinguished enough family. The
year of his birth coincided with his grandfather’s secondtenure of the consulship, in theory Rome’s highest office, though now of largely ceremonial importance. And it was to be his grandfather who brought him up, for his father diedwhen he was very young. Marcus makes reference in the Meditations to his father’s character as he remembered it or heard of it from others, but his knowledge must have beenmore from stories than from actual memories. Of the remainder of his childhood and his early adolescence we know little more than can be gleaned from the Meditations. The biography of him in the so-called Historia Augusta (a curious and unreliable work of the late fourth centuryprobably based on a lost series of lives by the third-centurybiographer Marius Maximus) tells us that he was a serious child, but also that he loved boxing, wrestling, running andfalconry, that he was a good ballplayer and that he loved to hunt. None of these are surprising occupations in an upperclass youth.

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