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Pax Romana Art
Marcus Aurelius on Being a Good Man
Meditations, Book 10 · c. AD 170–180
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- Free US shipping. Tracking included on every order.
- Shatterproof plexiglass. Framed prints sit in a pine frame, FSC-certified, and arrive ready to hang.
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Framed print
- 12-color fine art printing with fade-resistant pigment inks
- Smooth matte fine art paper, 200 gsm
- Pine wood frame, FSC-certified paper and wood
- Shatterproof plexiglass
- Arrives framed and ready to hang, hanging kit included
Hanging print
- 12-color fine art printing with fade-resistant pigment inks
- Smooth matte fine art paper, 200 gsm
- Pine wood frame, FSC-certified paper and wood
- Shatterproof plexiglass
- Arrives framed and ready to hang, hanging kit included
- Sizes: 12x16″ · 18x24″ · 24x32″ · 30x40″
- Orientation: Vertical
- Medium: Fine art paper
- Style: Quote
- Era: Principate
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Marcus Aurelius on Being a Good ManFramed print · Black · 24x32″
1.846 kr
2.640 krSave 794 kr
Meditations, Book 10 · c. AD 170–180
An Order Written to Himself
Marcus Aurelius wrote the Meditations as private notes to himself, probably during his long campaigns on the Danube in the 170s AD. The work has no title from his hand; the manuscripts call it simply 'To Himself.' He wrote in Greek, the language of philosophy in his day, and he never meant it to be published.
Book 10 is one of the most urgent. Again and again Marcus tells himself that time is short, that death is near and that the only thing worth doing is to act well now. Section 16 compresses that into a single command. For a Stoic, philosophy was not a debate about virtue but the practice of it, and Marcus often reminds himself that the point of all his reading is to live better.
The translation on this piece is George Long's Victorian version, published in 1862 and still widely read, and it follows the Greek closely. The familiar short form of the line, telling the reader to waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be, is the same sentence in a freer translation, not a different saying.
The piece
The design sets a white marble bust of Marcus against a deep night-blue ground, in the bearded type of his later portraits. Light from the upper left falls on the thick curls and the round brooch pinning his cloak, and his gaze leads across to the words in the open dark.
Materia · The materials
Fine art paper, framed or hung.
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Fine art paper
Framed prints: 200 gsm smooth matte paper, printed in 12 colors with fade-resistant pigment inks.
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Shatterproof plexiglass
Protects the print in transit and on the wall.
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Magnetic wooden hanger
Posters: 250 gsm museum-quality matte paper between pine hangers in black or dark wood. The magnets hold the print, so you can swap it any time.
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