| Meditations by Marcus Aurelius |
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| Inside Flap Marcus's insights and advice on everything from living in the world to coping with adversity and interacting with others, have made the Meditations required reading for statesmen and philosophers alike, while generations of ordinary readers have responded to the straightforward intimacy of his style. In Gregory Hays's new translation, the first in a generation, Marcus's thoughts speak with a new immediacy: never before have they been so directly and powerfully presented. From the Back Cover �Here, for our age, is [Marcus�s] great work presented in its entirety, strongly introduced and freshly, elegantly translated.� �Robert Fagles About the Author Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (a.d. 121�180) succeeded his adoptive father as emperor of Rome in a.d. 161. A student of philosophy from his earliest youth, he was especially influenced by the first-century Stoic thinker Epictetus. His later reputation rests on his Meditations, written during his later years and never meant for formal publication. Gregory Hays is assistant professor of classics at the University of Virginia. He is currently completing a translation and critical study of the mythographer Fulgentius. |