I thought I’d start tweet-reviewing my eclectic summer reading. First on deck is the graphic novel VERISSIMUS by
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Setting the historical life and Stoic philosophy of Marcus Aurelius to comic book form is ambitious, but Robertson, a behavioral psychotherapist, is an expert on Rome’s noblest emperor
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The title Verissimus comes from the name bestowed on young Marcus as a boy by his temperamental benefactor, the Emperor Hadrian
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It was Emperor Hadrian’s shocking inability to control his terrible temper at court that was a factor in first turning young Marcus (then known as Verus) towards Stoicism
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