Considering what a crap job he did raising his son, I could consider him a good philosopher and writer, but (and I know this includes the supposedly wisest man ever), I can’t consider somebody a great MAN if their kid is an idiot and/or psychopath.
I can’t consider somebody a great MAN if their kid is an idiot and/or psychopath.
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Sometimes great people’s kids turn out crappy through no fault of the parents. It is one good argument against having hereditary monarchies.
Marcus was actually the last of the good emperors. Starting with his son, the Roman Empire began a slow but steady decline.
It had to do with the fact that the Romans kept their wine in lead containers. They were suffering from arsenic poisoning.