Here's a question I'm pretty sure no one listening to this has ever bothered to ask.

Who is the current Roman Emperor?

Obviously the Roman Empire doesn't exist, but if it did, who would be the claimant to the imperial throne?

Explore with me the very convoluted answer

to this very meaningless question

on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. This episode is

by Audible.com. My audiobook recommendation is How to Think Like a

Roman Emperor, the Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius by Donald

Robertson. Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius by Donald Robertson.

Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius was the final famous stoic philosopher of the ancient world.

The Meditations, his personal journal, survives to this day as one of the most loved self-help and spiritual

classics of all time. In this book Psychotherapist Donald Robinson we've

stories of Marcus's life from the Roman histories together with explanations of

Stoicism, its philosophy and psychology to enlighten

today's listeners.

You can get a free one month trial to Audible and two free audio books by going to Audible

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notes.

While the question I posed for this episode might not be relevant as there is no

Roman Empire, it isn't unheard of. Many countries with former monarchies have

families today which are claimants to the throne or we could point you to say that they would be the

monarch if they still had a monarchy. For example, 44-year-old Griorg Friedrich

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