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Marcus Aurelius and the Silk Road Trade
While history remembers Marcus Aurelius as the philosopher-emperor who penned the Meditations on the war-torn Danube frontier, his reign also quietly reshaped the economic arteries of the Roman Empire. This episode moves away from the legions and the plague to explore the vibrant, chaotic trade routes connecting Rome to the East during the second century CE. We trace the journey of silk, spices, and incense along the Silk Road, examining how these exotic goods flooded into ports like Ostia and Red Sea harbors such as Myos Hormos. The narrative focuses on the specific mechanisms of this…
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