William O. Stephens
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678 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 3d ago
William O. Stephens’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Oh yeah, let's uh let's persecute these Christians.
They're not towing the line, they're not making the practices of Roman religion.
So they're the ones who are angering the gods.
The Christians are atheists because they don't believe in the Roman pantheon, right?
Right.
Which is always very welcoming and so forth.
So, and I think, you know, scholars agree that uh it's likely that Marcus started writing his notes, his journal, uh, the last few years of his life when he was campaigning along the Danube, right?
We have textual evidence that that he's on the River Grand um in book two, right?
And so I think
You know, this is Marcus's it can be seen as a kind of swan song, right?
He doesn't know how much longer he's gonna live given the health challenges that he's had, the difficulties that he's had.
And so one idea that I've been kicking around is, I mean, we we don't have evidence that Marcus intended anyone else to read these notes.
But we do have them.
So why did they survive?
How did they survive?
And if it's the case that he was only writing the notes for himself to read.
Before he died, he could have destroyed the notes.
Or he could have instructed
That those who survived him destroyed the notes.
And we've no evidence that he did that.
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