AURELIUS, Marcus Aurelius Antonius.
[Meditations].
[Meditations].
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to Himself. In English by Gerald H. Rendall, M.A., Litt.D.
Stock Code 122498
London, George Bell & Sons 1905.
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'.
8vo (17 x 11 cm); wood-engraved title, 2pp publisher's ads to rear, slight spotting to endpapers; publisher's brown cloth, tooled in gilt to an Art Nouveau design, top-edge gilt, spine slightly faded very good; [8], 254, [2 ads]pp.
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