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Marcus Aurelius and the Christians
In the summer of 177 AD, as Marcus Aurelius campaigned along the Danube, a brutal persecution erupted in the Roman city of Lugdunum—modern Lyon—that would become a defining moment for the early Church. This episode explores the philosopher emperor's complex relationship with Christianity: the legal ambiguities that allowed local mobs and governors to target believers, Marcus's own silence on the subject in his *Meditations*, and the famous martyrdoms of Bishop Pothinus, the slave Blandina, and the apologist Justin Martyr. We examine the Stoic principles of justice and clemency…
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