The Boy Who Would Be King: A Fable About Marcus Aurelius

By Ryan Holiday

Categories: Children's Books

The Boy Who Would Be King: A Fable About Marcus Aurelius is Ryan Holiday's illustrated retelling, for readers of all ages, of how the emperor Hadrian chose the young Marcus Aurelius as a future ruler of Rome. With 82 illustrations by Victor Juhasz, it follows the boy's education by philosophers chosen to teach him as they prepare him for absolute power. Holiday presents the story as a parable about answering a calling and about character that power does not corrupt.