The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Index

203 index Adrian (Hadrian, Roman emperor), 4–5, 54, 96, 99, 101, 127, 168n41 Aeneid. See Virgil Aesculapius (Asclepius), 60, 78, 176n1, 178n12 Aesop’s fables, 188n13, 188n22 Agathon, 50 Agricola, 8 Agrippa, Marcus Vipsanius, 100, 182n11 Alcibiades, 94n, 181n28 Alciphron, 128 Alexander the critic, 27, 171n10 Alexander the Great, 41, 75, 96, 114, 127 Alexander the Platonist, 27, 171n12 angels, compared with inferior Roman deities, 98n anger, 35, 76, 88; importance of containing , 139–41 animals, kindness toward, 75 animal soul, 33–34, 46, 51, 73, 109, 115, 145, 150 Annia Cornificia, 5 Annia Faustina, 4, 99 Antisthenes, 88 Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius (Roman emperor). See Aurelius, Marcus Antoninus Pius (Roman emperor, adoptive father of Marcus Aurelius), 4, 5–6, 14, 28–31, 54, 76, 99, 108n, 112n, 127 Apollonius of Chalcedon, 26–27, 31, 170n8 Apuleius, 171n15 Archelaus (king of Macedon), 188n20 Archimedes, 80, 179n15 Areios (Arius), 100, 182n11 Areopagus, 92, 181n26 Aristides, Aelius, 16, 168n40, 176n1 Aristophanes, 93, 186–87n6 Aristotle, xv, xx, 127n, 172n5, 186n20, 188n20 Arrian, xiii, 47n, 88n, 116n, 170n7 Asclepius (Aesculapius), 60, 78, 176n1, 178n12 assistance of others, accepting, 84 astrology, 173n3 Athenagoras, 9, 166n22 Athenodotus, 27, 171n14 Aufidius Victorinus, 8 Augustine of Hippo, xxii, 163f Augustus (Roman emperor), 54, 96, 100 Aurelius, Marcus: birth, family, and youth, 4–6; Cassius, revolt of, 12–16; Christianity and, 6–7, 9, 11, 18–23, 134, 168–69n45, 186nn2–3; Christian spirit of, Gataker on, 161–64; final illness and death, 17–18; in Greece, 16; influences and mentors, 4–6, 25– 32; marriage, 6, 14, 16, 18, 19, 32; name of, 4, 165n1; wars of, 8–12, 16– 18. See also Meditations, The 204 index Baccheios (Bacchius), 26, 170n5 Balguy, John, xviii beauty: internal nature of, 50–51; moral implications of, 40–41; of natural things, 40–41, 51 behavior, 119n Benedicta, 31 benevolence or kind affection, xvii– xviii, xix, xxviii, 42, 110n, 136, 187n8. See also natural sociability Bentley, Richard, 174n10 Bernard (saint), 164 biblical citations: Acts, 163n; 2 Corinthians , 119n, 123; Deuteronomy, 163n; Ephesians, 174n11; Galatians, 110n; Genesis, 164n; Isaiah 1, 122n; John, 123n; Leviticus, 123n; Luke, 86n, 123n, 161n, 162n; Matthew, 94n, 110n, 123n, 159n, 161n, 162n, 181n28, 184n7; 1 Peter, 123n; Philippians , 119n, 120n, 185n1; Proverbs, 164n; Psalms, 122n; Romans, 119, 120n, 123n, 163n, 164n; Titus, 117n, 184n21 Blair, Hugh, xxvii–xxviii Boyle, Charles, 174n10 Brutus, Marcus Junius (the tyrannicide ), 28, 171n17 Burnet, Gilbert, xviii Caesar, Gaius Julius, 41, 96, 188n12 Caeso, 54 Calvinists and Calvinism, xxii, xxiii– xxv, xxviii Cambray (François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, archbishop of Cambrai), 94n, 181n28 Cambridge Platonists, 183n17 Camillus, 54 Carmichael, Gershom, 183n4 Casaubon, Meric, xii, xiv Cassius, Avidius, revolt of, 12–16 Cato (the Younger), 28, 54, 171n17, 175n11, 175n13, 187–88n12, 189–90n7 Catullinus, Fabius, 149 Catulus, Cinna, 4, 27, 171n13 Celer, 99 Chabrias, 101 Chaldeans, as fortune-tellers, 41 change as part of natural order, 54, 55, 73, 85, 96, 110–11, 113, 115. See also physics of Stoics Charax, 99 Christianity: angels, belief in, 98n; apologetics for attention to works of pagan emperor, 21–23, 159–62; early histories of, 20–22, 26–28, 45, 166nn14–15; ethical teachings found also in The Meditations, xxiii–xxv, xxvi, xxviii, 33n, 68n, 81n, 86n, 91n, 94n, 109n, 110n, 113n, 117n, 119n, 120n, 123n, 150n, 161–64a–p, 179n17; Marcus Aurelius and, 6–7, 9, 11, 18– 23, 134, 168–69n45, 186nn2–3; martyrdom sought in, 134n, 179n17, 184n7, 185n9; objectionable doctrines and conduct of, xxiii–xxv, 21– 22; obstinacy of, 134; persecution of, 18–21, 168–69n45; persecutions within, 20, 21; predestination, xxii, 104n, 187n8 Chrysippus, 78, 86, 178n11 Church of Scotland, xxiv–xxv Cicero, Marcus Tullius, xxvii, 55n, 86n, 105n, 151n, 158m, 173n9, 175n13, 175n15, 179n3, 189–90n7, 191n6 Cithaeron (Cithoeron), 135 citizenship of the world, xxi, 42, 48– 49, 52–53, 65–66, 80, 84–85, 174n3 Clarke, John, xvi, xviii Claudius Maximus, 4, 28, 30, 31, 99, 171n15, 187n9 Cleanthes, 157p, 191n1 Clement of Alexandria, 123n index 205 Collier, Jeremy, xii, xiiin13 comedy, 135, 186–87n6 Commodus, Cesenius, 5 Commodus (Roman emperor; son of Marcus Aurelius), 7–8, 14, 17–18 conjecture about others, vanity of, 41– 42 contemplation, 123–24 country, retirement to, 47–48, 127 Crates, 73 crimes, comparison of, 34 Crito, 128, 186n22 Croesus, 128, 186n21 Cumberland, Richard, xix Cynics, 172n7, 179n16, 181n3, 187n6 Dacier, André, xii–xiii, xxiv, 4, 165n5...