Meditations

Meditations
de Marco Aurélio

256 pp.
Everyman's Library, 1992
9781857150551

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.