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Hroswitha's avatar

Re. footnote 6, I once worked with someone who'd gone to a Christian/classical-ed school, where he took Latin, but got a scolding for reading Marcus Aurelius in the original, because didn't he know that MA had persecuted Christians?

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Daniel B.'s avatar

I had previously googled "Marcus Aurelius Christian persecution" and got a very wide range of opinions from reliable-looking sources on this topic, from people saying he was a brutal persecutor to those claiming he was barely involved at all.

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