Gregory Hays talked about his translation of [Meditations of Marcus Aurelius], published by Modern Library. The book is a collection of reflections on leadership and ethics written by Marcus ...

Marcus Aurelius was a superman: a great philosopher and a legendary emperor. Aurelius ruled from AD161 to his death in AD180, the last of the "five good emperors", to use a phrase later coined by ...

Ironically, if Tate had read Marcus Aurelius more closely, he’d have learned that Stoicism teaches that anger is often a sign that our feelings are easily hurt—it accompanies emotional ...

Marcus Aurelius wrote Meditations while in the midst of a military campaign. At the end of Book II, he mentions Carnuntum, a military base on the Danube (near modern Vienna).

Over 1,800 years ago, Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius wrestled with these same struggles, jotting down his thoughts in what became Meditations. Surprisingly, his reflections feel just as relevant today.

The twelve books of the Meditations do not present any chronological or thematic order but consist of a variety of unrelated reflections that seem to have been written for Marcus’ own benefit ...

Robertson, a founding member of the organization Modern Stoicism and the president and founder of the Plato’s Academy Centre nonprofit, is the author of Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor In the ...

Marcus Aurelius was the Roman Emperor from March 7, 161, until his death on March 17, 180. He lived and died over 2,000 years ago, but his legacy lives on in “Mediations,” a series of twelve ...

ELIOT---MEDITATIONS OF MARCUS AURELIUS; Although One of the Most Noted of the Stoic Philosophers His "Meditations" Are More Like Religious Aspirations. Share full article. Aug. 29, 1909.