Meditations - Couverture souple

Marcus Aurelius Emperor Of Rome

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0460010093 ISBN 13 : 9780460010092

Editeur : Littlehampton Book Services Ltd, 1972

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was born to an upper-class Roman family in A.D. 121 and was later adopted by the future emperor Antoninus Pius, whom he succeeded in 161. His reign was marked by a successful campaign against Parthia, but was overshadowed in later years by plague, an abortive revolt in the eastern provinces, and the deaths of friends and family, including his co-emperor Lucius Verus. 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. He died in 180, while campaigning against the barbarian tribes on Rome’s northern frontier.

A. S. L. Farquharson (1871—1942) spent a lifetime on his edition of the  Meditations, which is one of the outstanding twentieth-century achievements of classical scholarship. All the notes to the Farquharson translation, amplifying the twelve books of the  Meditations, are included in this volume.

Revue de presse

“ The Meditations remain, unendingly moving and inspiring, the communings with itself of a thoughtful and devout soul upon the greatest of human issues. They are not, and do not claim to be, a work of original philosophy, nor yet a systematic exposition of a tradition of thought. They speak for themselves. Only by the slenderest of chances have they come down to the modern world at all . . . but the number of times they have been published . . . and above all translated into a vast variety of tongues, would have filled their author with amazement.” –from the Introduction by D. A. Rees

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1972
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0460010093
• ISBN 13: 9780460010092
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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