#jasper burns

[domitiaa]

I want you to know. No matter what we do. In my heart you will always be my wife.

Vipsania: A Roman Odyssey by Jasper Burns

[fennec-that-loves-jesters]

My family made a blanket with pictures of jasper on it for me to stay warm in. I cried and I’m still tearing up over it. I miss my cat so much and this gift is something that I needed

[bookstand]

Biographical sketches of the “five good” Roman emperors: Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius - plus the “bad emperor” Commodus. Also, a series of fictional letters from each advising his successor how to improve as a ruler and human being and a letter to Marcus Aurelius, written after his death, from his son Commodus. These letters reveal the evolution of imperial personality - from shrewdness to achievement to knowledge to virtue to wisdom to madness - or was it enlightenment?

Note: This book was free when posted. Check it still is if you only want it for free.