how Marcus Aurelius' Meditations can help us in a time of pandemic
- Written by Matthew Sharpe, Associate Professor in Philosophy, Deakin University
A statue of Marcus Aurelius in Rome's Piazza del Campidoglio.Jean-Pol Grandmont/Wikimedia CommonsMarcus Aurelius was no stranger to pandemics. For 16 years of his reign as Roman Emperor (161-180 CE), the empire was ravaged by the Antonine plague, which took five million lives.
It was during this period that the philosopher king penned a series of...





