One of the most remarkable of all Roman emperors was the philosopher-king Marcus Aurelius.
His full name was Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus, which led the polymath 19th-century Talmud scholar Rabbi Shlomo Yehuda Leib Rapoport to identify Marcus Aurelius as the Roman “Antoninus,” whose close friendship with the editor of the Mishnah, Rabbi Yehuda Hanassi, is cited in various fascinating episodes and encounters recorded across the Talmud.
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