基本信息·出版社：Dover Publications ·页码：112 页 ·出版日期：1997年07月 ·ISBN：048629823X ·条形码：9780486298238 ·装帧：平装 ·正文语种： ...
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基本信息·出版社：Dover Publications
·页码：112 页
·出版日期：1997年07月
·ISBN：048629823X
·条形码：9780486298238
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·丛书名：Dover Thrift Editions
·外文书名：沉思录
内容简介 A. S. L. Farquharson's translation was originally published in 1944, as part of a major commentary on Marcus Aurelius' work. In this volume, Farquharson's work is brought up to date and supplied with an introduction and notes for the student and general reader. A selection of lively letters from Marcus to his tutor Fronto, most of which date from his earlier years, is also included.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. 作者简介 Marcus Aurelius reigned from 161 AD to 180 AD- perhaps the only true philosopher- king in the history of the world. In his MEDITATIONS, a series of notes to himself, he formulated his pantheist Stoic beliefs with a passionate religious conviction. The MEDITATIONS were written day by day, in every situation including war. They often appear to be responses to the stress of supreme power, from the imminent fear of death in battle, to the trials of everyday life. Gregory Hays, the translator, is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia. Gregory Hays is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia. He has published articles and reviews on various ancient writers and is currently completing a translation and critical study of the mythographer Fulgentius.
--This text refers to the Paperback edition. 编辑推荐 Amazon.com One measure, perhaps, of a book's worth, is its intergenerational pliancy: do new readers acquire it and interpret it afresh down through the ages? The
Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, translated and introduced by Gregory Hays, by that standard, is very worthwhile, indeed. Hays suggests that its most recent incarnation--as a self-help book--is not only valid, but may be close to the author's intent. The book, which Hays calls, fondly, a "haphazard set of notes," is indicative of the role of philosophy among the ancients in that it is "expected to provide a 'design for living.'" And it does, both aphoristically ("Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what's left and live it properly.") and rhetorically ("What is it in ourselves that we should prize?"). Whether these, and other entries ("Enough of this wretched, whining monkey life.") sound life-changing or like entries in a teenager's diary is up to the individual reader, as it should be. Hays's introduction, which sketches the life of Marcus Aurelius (emperor of Rome A.D. 161-180) as well as the basic tenets of stoicism, is accessible and jaunty.
--H. O'Billovich --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Review ?Here, for our age, is [Marcus?s] great work presented in its entirety, strongly introduced and freshly, elegantly translated.? ?Robert Fagles
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
