William O. Stephens
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first heard Jun 2026
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William O. Stephens’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Who's gonna be the next Davidus Cassius to try to take over the throne?
Right.
So I mean, yeah, he was very tired.
He was the the plague ex dealing with the plague exhausted him.
Dealing with year after year of warfare and conflict and uprising, that sort of thing.
I mean, believe me, the Christians were the least of his problems.
And they weren't even a problem.
They would go for years at a time before there would be a little, you know, outburst of violence against uh persecution of the of the Christians, right?
In some remote
province, right?
He's dealing with all this displacement of tribes coming into the empire, and he's trying to keep it safe.
Where where's where's the peace?
He can't he's not going to find peace out in the world.
The only peace that he can muster is what he gets from reading his Epictetus and rehearsing the arguments for stoic truths.
Sure.
And and and we can certainly I mean for an upbeat.
Yeah.
We can absolutely celebrate the survival of his notes.
Imagine the story that historians would tell about Marcus if the meditations or the memoranda had not survived, and all we had was the equestrian statue, the military leader.
You know, the the emperor with the terrible rumors about, you know, whether he's even Commodus's father and Faustina and Avidus Cassius and Lucius Verus the Playboy and all this other stuff, right?
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