Name: Meditations: With Selected Correspondence
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Author: Robin Hard
ISBN: 9780199573202

portada Meditations: With Selected Correspondence

Meditations: With Selected Correspondence

Type

Physical Book

Author

Robin Hard

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Christopher Gill

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Topic

history & surveys - ancient & classical

Language

English

Pages

208

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.3x12.7x1.5 cm

Weight

0.18 kg.

ISBN13

9780199573202

Synopsis "Meditations: With Selected Correspondence "

The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius is one of the best-known and most popular works of ancient philosophy, offering spiritual reflections on how best to understand the universe and one's place within it. In short, highly charged comments, Marcus draws on Stoic philosophy to confront challenges that he felt acutely, but which are also shared by all human beings--facing the constant presence of death, making sense of one's social role, grasping the moral significance of the universe. They bring us closer to the personality of the emperor, who is often disillusioned with his own status and with human activities in general; they are both an historical document and a remarkable spiritual diary. This translation by Robin Hard brings out the eloquence and universality of Marcus' thoughts. The introduction and notes by Christopher Gill take account of the most recent work on Marcus and place the Meditations firmly in the ancient philosophical context. A newly translated selection ofMarcus' correspondence with his tutor Fronto broadens the picture of the emperor as a person and thinker.

Robin Hard

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Robin Hard has published in England the translations of the Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and the Library of Apollodorus, the only manual of mythology that has reached our days from ancient Greece.

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