Meditations
the tenth century it reappears in a letter from the scholar and churchman Arethas, who writes to a friend, “I have had for a whi ...
The fall of Constantinople to the Turks in 1453 led to an exodus of scholars, bringing with them the Greek texts that inspired t ...
beside the greater bulk of Epictetus’s Discourses. Yet it has always exerted a fascination on those outside the narrow orbit of ...
witness to the effect of the Meditations on a modern reader than the Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, whose essay “Homage to Marcus ...
the so-called Historia Augusta. Birley also draws on recent research into the careers of upper-class officeholders (prosopograph ...
(Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1977) is an exhaustive analysis of the civil and administrative functions performed by ...
of two modern novels set in the Antonine period, Walter Pater’s Marius the Epicurean (1885) and Marguerite Yourcenar’s Memoirs o ...
are the works of Seneca the Younger and Epictetus. The best introduction to Seneca is probably the Letters to Lucilius, of which ...
His Meditations,” Journal of Roman Studies 64 (1974): 1– 20, analyzes the themes that especially exercise Marcus. Pierre Hadot, ...
Virginia, and in particular my department chair, John Miller, made it possible for me to take course relief during the fall seme ...
gladiatorial combat and the brutal executions of the arena a source of tedium (6.46); that they might be morally wrong seems nev ...
occasionally split up a single entry into two (sometimes following earlier editors, sometimes not). There are some striking omi ...
and have marked with an obelus (<... >) a few passages where the original is impossible to reconstruct. William Alexander ...
Book 1 DEBTS AND LESSONS ...
1. MY GRANDFATHER VERUS Character and self-control. 2. MY FATHER (FROM MY OWN MEMORIES AND HIS REPUTATIONf) Integrity and manlin ...
4. MY GREAT-GRANDFATHER To avoid the public schools, to hire good private teachers, and to accept the resulting costs as money w ...
7. RUSTICUS The recognition that I needed to train and discipline my character. Not to be sidetracked by my interest in rhetoric ...
be the same in all circumstances—intense pain, the loss of a child, chronic illness. And to see clearly, from his example, that ...
the principles we ought to live by. Not to display anger or other emotions. To be free of passion and yet full of love. To prais ...
12. ALEXANDER THE PLATONIST Not to be constantly telling people (or writing them) that I’m too busy, unless I really am. Similar ...
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