Marcus Aurelius was a Roman emperor and stoic philosopher (121– 180 AD). His intellectual interest was Stoicism, a philosophy that emphasized fate, reason, and self-restraint. Born in Lancashire, England, George Long (1800– 1879) was a scholar and professor of classics. He was the editor and author of many scholarly texts and translations. His translations include Discourses of Epictetus and Plutarch’ s Lives and he is the author of Decline of the Roman Republic, Civil Wars of Rome, and Summary of Herodotus.
