The Daily Stoic - This Is What Will Happen To Your Accomplishments

Episode Date: November 15, 2023

Marcus Aurelius spent 14 years at war with the Marcomanni. It was a brutal, grinding campaign which he eventually won at great cost and risk. His victory was celebrated as a triumph, immortalized in a 97 foot tall marble tower which winds upward, showing in brilliant detail, "the heroic emotion and despair of Roman soldiers along with the unwavering leadership of Marcus Aurelius."And some 19 centuries later, this monument to his accomplishments still stands, disproving, you might say, Marcus Aurelius’s reminders to himself in Meditations that posthumous fame doesn’t last, that no one would remember him.Except it’s more complicated than that. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail🏛 Check out the Daily Stoic Store for Stoic inspired products, signed books, and more.📱 Follow us: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, FacebookSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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For more, you can visit us dailystoweth.com. This is what will happen to your accomplishments. Marcus really spent 14 years at war. It was a brutal grinding campaign, which he eventually won at great cost and risk. His victory was celebrated as a triumph, immortalized in a 97-foot tall marble tower which winds upward, showing in brilliant detail the heroic emotion and despair of Roman soldiers

with the unwavering leadership of Marcus Aurelius. And some 19th centuries later, this monument to his accomplishments still stands. Disproving, you might say, Marcus Aurelius is reminders to himself in meditations that posthumous fame doesn't last and that no one would remember him. Except it's a little more complicated than that.

Because if you've been to Rome and seen this column, you'll notice that there is a statue on top of it and it's not of Marcus. In fact, it's St. Paul. In the 16th century, Pope Sixtus V decided to take this monument to Marcus and reuse it for his own purposes. Small world, Senna Cus Brother Freed Stint Paul, near 51 AD, and Paul himself came from Tarsus, one of the centers of Greek stoicism. Like the cults of the Emperor, which worshiped a statue with a replaceable head, because so many emperors had short reigns, in the end, that's what Marcus's greatest trophy was, turned into a pedestal for a Christian saint.

And that's what history does to everyone, even those famous enough to be remembered. It remixes, it reuses, it perverts, it undermines, it contradicts, it absorbs us for its own purposes. And on a long enough timeline, everyone's will and testament is ignored. Their grays lost and obscured, their memory written over. Accomplishments are turned into cautionary tales,

existences reduced to punchlines, if they can do it to kings and conquerors, they can do it to you too. Remember that before it's too late. Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to the Daily Stoic early and ad-free on Amazon Music, download the Amazon Music app today, or you can listen early and ad-free with Wondery Plus in Apple Podcasts. Psst, hey you, yeah you. I'm gonna let you in on a little secret.

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