

There isn’t a plot, but there is a very strong theme and that theme is split into V main themes into XII books or chapters. Meditations isn’t your typical nonfiction book it's the thoughts and beliefs of Marcus Aurelius on how to live. Gregory Hays is a professor of classics at the University of Konstanz in Germany and studies Greek and Latin palaeography and manuscript. Meditations was recorded by Marcus Aurelius in his private journal from AD 161 to 180 and was translated by Gregory Hays and published on the VIth of May in MMIII (2003). He didn't write about his experience of his life in Meditations he actually wrote about his morals and his perspective on how to live a fulfilling and productive life. Marcus Aurelius was also the last emperor of the Pax Romana, the Pax Romana was an age of peace and safety for the Romans which was from 27 BC to 180 AD. He was the last of the rulers of the Five Good Emperors. He was a Roman emperor from 161 to 180 AD and a one-of-a-kind philosopher.

Marcus Aurelius had a very complicated life and was a very important person.
