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The introduction frames Marcus as a ruler shaped by education in rhetoric and bilingual Greek-Latin culture, while emphasizing his relationship to Plato’s ideal of the philosopher-king. It also outlines early life influences, schooling, and the intellectual traditions that shaped his practice of Stoic philosophy.","Marcus Aurelius Meditations  \nANew Translation, with an Introduction, by Gregory Hays  \nTHE MODERN LIBRARY  \nNEW YORK  \nContents  \nTitle Page Chronology Half Title Page  \nIntroduction by Gregory Hays Meditations  \nBook 1: Debts and Lessons  \nBook 2: On the River Gran, Among the Quadi  \nBook 3: In Carnuntum Book 4  \nBook 5  \nBook 6  \nBook 7  \nBook 8  \nBook 9  \nBook 10  \nBook 11  \nNotes  \nIndex of Persons  \nAbout the Translator The Modern Library Editorial Board Copyright  \nMeditations  \nIntroduction  \nGregory Hays  \nMarcus Aurelius Antoninus  \nStates will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers .  \n—PLATO, The Republic  \nMarcus Aurelius is said to have been fond of quoting Plato’s dictum, and those who have written about him have rarely been 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 Roman Empire 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 philosophy developed 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 distinguished career in the Senate or the imperial administration. They  \ncould 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.  \nMarcus sprang from a distinguished enough family. The year of his birth coincided with his grandfather ’s second tenure of the consulship, in theory Rome ’s highest office, though now of largely ceremonial importance. And it was tobe his grandfather who brought him up, for his father died when 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 been more 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 century probably based on a lost series of lives by the third-century biographer Marius Maximus) tells us that he was a serious child, but also that he loved boxing, wrestling, running and falconry, that he was a good ballplayer and that he loved to hunt. None of these are surprising occupations in an upperclass youth.  \nBook 1 of the Meditations offers glimpses of Marcus ’s schooling, and we can fill out the picture by what is known of upper-class education generally at this period. His first  \ninstructors, like the unnamed teacher mentioned in Meditations 1.5, were probably slaves, from whom he would have mastered the rudiments of reading and writing. At a later stage he would have been handed over to private tutors to be introduced to literature, especially, no doubt, Vergil ’s great epic, the Aeneid. But literature served only asa preparation for the real goal. This was rhetoric, the key to an active political career under the empire, as it had been under the Republic. Under the supervision of a trained rhetor, Marcus would have begun with short exercises before progressing to full-scale practice declamations in which he would have been asked to defend one side or another in imaginary law cases, or to advise a prominent historical figure at a turning point in his career. ( Should Caesar cross the Rubicon? Should Alexander turn back at the Indus? Why or why not?)  \nSuch training was conducted in Greek as well as Latin. 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