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This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher and Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius' work, Meditations (or To Myself) It focuses specifically on a passage in book 11, in which Marcus sets out nine remedies for anger allegorically received from the Muses, and then adds three more, one of them a gift from Apollo. To support my ongoing wor ... Show More
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