Chronology
Every drafted work, year by year, alongside the events of Marcus Aurelius's life. Runs of consecutive letters are folded into groups so you can skim past them or expand to read.
175 BC
Age ~54, written on campaign. Emperor since 161, Marcus spends his last years at the Danube frontier prosecuting the Marcomannic Wars while the plague brought back from the East still ravages the empire. The Meditations are private Greek notes-to-self in Stoic self-examination — never meant for publication, never given a title by their author.
phil Meditations 175 AD