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Marcus Aurelius and the Stoic's Forgotten Wife
Everyone knows Marcus Aurelius as the philosopher emperor, but behind his Meditations stood a woman who shaped his reign: Faustina the Younger. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the life of Rome's most maligned empress — her political influence during the Marcomannic Wars, her role in the succession crisis of Avidius Cassius, and the rumors of infidelity that followed her. They examine the historical evidence from Cassius Dio and the Historia Augusta, the damnatio memoriae that never happened, and the real reason Marcus deified her. Was she a scheming adulteress or a capable…
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