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Marcus Aurelius: Greek Terms
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Marcus Aurelius is well-known as a Stoic philosopher; his Meditations, written in Greek, survive and continue to inspire. However, his son and successor Commodus was a particularly vicious example of imperial excess.
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Marcus Aurelius has a reputation, possibly exaggerated by history, as a Stoic philosopher. He wrote his well-known Meditations in Greek while on campaign as a source for his own guidance and self-improvement. Those memos survive and continue to inspire others to this day.
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Marcus Aurelius wrote the twelve books of the Meditations in Greek as a source for his own guidance and self-improvement. It is possible that large portions of the work were written in Sirmium were he spent much time planning campaigns from 170 to 180. We know that some of it was written while he was positioned at Aquincum on campaign in Pannonia, because internal notes tell us that the second book was written when he was campaigning against the Quadi on the river Gran (modern-day Hron) and the third book was written at Carnuntum. It is not clear that he ever intended the writings to be published, so the title Meditations is but one of several commonly assigned to the collection. These writings take the form of quotations varying in length from one sentence to long paragraphs.
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This review refers specifically to the Loeb Classical Library edition of the works of Marcus Aurelius (volume 58, simply titled Marcus Aurelius), edited and translated by C.R. Haines, and first published 1916 (revised 1930). It is the only widely available text that gives both the original Greek text as well as an English translation. It includes an Introduction to the text itself, as well as one on Stoicism, a Bibliography, indices of Matters and of Proper Names, and a Glossary of Greek Terms. Beside the Meditations it ... includes Speeches and Sayings by Marcus Aurelius, and a Note on Christians
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