Companion to Meditations, the Wisdom Forge Translation
If you are listening to the audiobook, or reading the hardcover, this is where the things a page cannot hold are kept: the map, the timeline, the documents, and the sources behind every claim the essays make. Nothing here replaces the book. Everything here proves it.
Sixteen moments from 121 to 180, on the crimson rule, with the printed plate beside it.
The empire in the year he died, in the book's own map, with the two languages of power and the cities named.
One line from each book, keyed to its entry.
The people of Book One and what Marcus says he owed each of them.
Frederick, Mill, Roosevelt, Mattis, Wen, Percy: the readers the essay follows, and the documents behind them.
The manuscripts, first editions, letters, inscriptions and busts the book rests on, each with the institution that holds it and its shelf mark.
Every claim in the essays, with the source and the page, so anyone can retrace it.