Meditations (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature)

by EmperorofRomeMarcusAurelius (Author)

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  Paperback
  1997

  $8.48

  The Meditations of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius are a readable exposition of the system of metaphysics known as stoicism. Stoics maintained that by putting aside great passions, unjust thoughts and indulgence, man could acquire virtue and live at one with nature.

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  Paperback
  1974

  $9.82

  It was during his campaigns against the barbarians that the Roman emperor, Marcus Aurelius, wrote his famous Meditations . They record the passing thoughts, the maxims and the musings on life and death of a sensitive and humble mind which had been trained in that stoic philosophy which contributed so much to Christianity. In this translation from the scholarly Greek in which Marcus kept his private journal, Staniforth gives us a simple and straightforward version of a work which has often been compared to the imitation of Christ .

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  Paperback
  2005

  $15.10

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  hardcover
  

  $18.51

  The Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (AD 121-180) embodied in his person that ideal figure of antiquity, the philosopher-king. His Meditations reveal a mind of exceptional clarity and originality and a spirit attuned to the particulars of human destiny.