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Marcus Aurelius and the Stoic's Dream of a Golden Age: The Indian Embassy
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore a fascinating but often overlooked event of Marcus Aurelius's reign: the arrival of an Indian embassy at the court of Antoninus Pius, which Marcus witnessed as a young prince. Drawing on the accounts of the historian Florus and the Greek writer Athenaeus, they discuss the diplomatic gifts—including a tiger, a parrot, and a philosopher—and what they reveal about Roman-Indian trade along the Red Sea and Indian Ocean routes. Lucas explains the context of the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, the role of the Nabataean kingdom and the port of Berenike…
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