Aurelius actually gets a decent amount of flak from historians and contemporaries, for various reasons. A later Emperor, Septimius Severus, even called him gutless for not having it in him to kill his son, Commodus, for the good of the Empire.
Aurelius is a good Emperor, and the last of the Five Good Emperors, but far from unhated.
Why isn’t Marcus Aurelius here? He’s known as the last good emperor.
Aurelius actually gets a decent amount of flak from historians and contemporaries, for various reasons. A later Emperor, Septimius Severus, even called him gutless for not having it in him to kill his son, Commodus, for the good of the Empire.
Aurelius is a good Emperor, and the last of the Five Good Emperors, but far from unhated.