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Meditations

Meditations: The Annotated Edition

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Synopsis

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 CE) was the sixteenth emperor of Rome-and the most powerful man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely private person, with a rich interior life and one of the wisest minds of his generation. He collected his thoughts in notebooks that have come to be called his Meditations. Never intended for publication, the work has proved an inexhaustible source of wisdom and one of the most important Stoic texts of all time.
This annotated edition offers the definitive translation of this classic and much beloved text, from world-renowned classics expert Robin Waterfield. Illuminating one of the greatest works of popular philosophy for new readers, it enriches the understanding of even the most devoted Stoic.

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Basic Books
  • ISBN: 9781541673861
  • Number of pages: 384
  • Dimensions: 208 x 138 x 28 mm
  • Weight: 340g
  • Languages: English

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Meditations
Meditations
This book will soon become an essential item to carry around with you for a quick glance now and again - solace and wisdom can seldom be found so readily i... READ MORE
WillPope
Meditations
Relevant today
I've been curious about this book for a long time but kept putting it off, thinking it would be too dense and too hard to read. Wrong! I'm left with a visi... READ MORE
Dawn Lewis
Meditations
The struggle to he a stoic
The meditations are a collection of his thoughts and notes written for himself. So not a systematic philosophy that you will find in other works. You'll re... READ MORE
Rod Whiting
Meditations
Essential reading
This quickly became one of my top 3 book recommendations. For me it legitimised and affirmed my way of thinking, it was also a strange yet comforting feeli... READ MORE
John Oakley
Meditations
More than an Emperor
His words are stuck with me every day, and it made me a person to implement good values into my life. Life changing.
Jack Stylianou
Meditations
As relevant today as it was thousands of years ago. This versions annotations add excellent additional colour.
It is a gift to read the inner dialog of an emperor of Rome and to see that he shares the same challenges as we all do today. Even with all of his relative... READ MORE
Tony Grout