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Marcus Aurelius and the Antonine Constitution
In this episode of Fexingo History, Lucas and Luna explore Marcus Aurelius's often-overlooked legal reforms. Beyond the Danube frontier and the Meditations lay a quieter revolution: the Antonine Constitution of 212 AD, a decree that would grant Roman citizenship to nearly all free inhabitants of the empire. Lucas traces the origins of this edict back to Marcus's own policies, his correspondence with his tutor Fronto, and his Stoic belief in a universal human reason. They discuss the legal distinctions between citizen and peregrine, the role of jurists like Papinian and Ulpian, and…
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