AURELIUS, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.
[Meditations]. The Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus the Emperor. Translated by George Long.
London, Chapman & Hall, [c.1900].
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An important work of Stoic philosophy by the last of Rome's Five Good Emperors.
Marcus Aurelius composed his Meditations between 170 and 180 AD as a private work, intended for his own moral guidance and self-improvement. The first definite mention of the text was made by Arethas of Caesarea in the 10th century, who sent a copy of the Emperors' '[writings] to himself' to Demetrius, Archbishop of Heracleia sometime before 907 AD. Although now lost, this edition is considered the likely source of the two extant manuscripts on which the present-day text is almost entirely based. The work survives to offer us a unique insight into the mind of a Roman emperor and 'philosopher king'.
Small 4to (19.5 x 15 cm); photographic frontispiece, occasional light spotting; contemporary half dark green morocco, green cloth boards, gilt spine in 6 compartments, slightly faded, cloth a little soiled and marked, very good; [6], 225, [1]pp.
Marcus Aurelius composed his Meditations between 170 and 180 AD as a private work, intended for his own moral guidance and self-improvement. The first definite mention of the text was made by Arethas of Caesarea in the 10th century, who sent a copy of the Emperors' '[writings] to himself' to Demetrius, Archbishop of Heracleia sometime before 907 AD. Although now lost, this edition is considered the likely source of the two extant manuscripts on which the present-day text is almost entirely based. The work survives to offer us a unique insight into the mind of a Roman emperor and 'philosopher king'.
Small 4to (19.5 x 15 cm); photographic frontispiece, occasional light spotting; contemporary half dark green morocco, green cloth boards, gilt spine in 6 compartments, slightly faded, cloth a little soiled and marked, very good; [6], 225, [1]pp.
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[Meditations].
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£550.00
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