Meditations: A New Translation – Marcus Aurelius
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Meditations remains profoundly relevant for anyone seeking to lead a meaningful life, even nearly two thousand years after it was written.
Marcus’s thoughts have a new immediacy in Gregory Hays’ new translation and is the first in 35 years. Hays vividly expresses the sparseness and brevity of the original Greek language in clear, unconstrained English. Marcus’s thoughts have never been delivered in such a direct and forceful manner.
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“Here, for our age, is [Marcus’s] great work presented in its entirety, strongly introduced and freshly, elegantly translated.” —Robert Fagles
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A series of spiritual exercises filled with wisdom, practical guidance, and profound understanding of human behavior, Marcus Aurelius’s “Meditations remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever written. 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.
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.
About the Author
Gregory Hays is an associate professor of classics at the University of Virginia. He maintains an annotated bibliography of Fulgentius the Mythmaker.
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