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Marcus Aurelius (0121–0180)

Autor/a de Meditations

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Born in Rome, in 121, Marcus Aurelius was one of the most respected emperors in Roman history. When he was 17, Aurelius was adopted by emperor Antonius Pius and succeeded him in A.D. 161. He ruled jointly with his adoptive brother, Lucius Verus, until 169, when he became sole emperor after Verus mostra'n més died. Although Aurelius was a humanitarian ruler, he accepted the view that Christians were the enemies of Rome. Aurelius was dovoted to the Stoic philosophy. Meditations, his spiritual reflections, is considered a classic work of stoicism. Written in Greek, the work comprises of twelve books and records his innermost thoughts. Meditations is his only surviving work. Aurelius died in 180 while prosecuting war against the Marcomanni who lived along the northern limits of the Roman Empire. After his death Aurelius was idealized as the perfect emperor whose reign contrasted sharply with the disastrous period before him and the reigns that followed. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Credit: Luis García, Prado, Madrid, Spain, 2006

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Obres de Marcus Aurelius

Meditations (0170) 14,267 exemplars
Meditations [abridged] (1995) 278 exemplars
100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature - volume 2 (2020) — Col·laborador — 70 exemplars
Marcus Aurelius in Love (2007) 28 exemplars
Kendime Düsünceler (2005) 26 exemplars
Contro le lusinghe del mondo (2009) 7 exemplars
Iseendale (2021) 7 exemplars
Meditations : Enchiridion (1970) 6 exemplars
La libertà interiore (2007) 6 exemplars
Självbetraktelser (2021) 5 exemplars
Pensées - Livres VII-XII (2007) 5 exemplars
Meditaciones (2020) 5 exemplars
L'arte di conoscere se stessi (2012) 4 exemplars
Gânduri către sine însuşi (2011) 4 exemplars
Meditations. Books 1-6 (2013) 3 exemplars
A sí mismo (2007) 3 exemplars
Ad se ipsum libri XII (2012) 2 exemplars
In semet ipsum 2 exemplars
Meditations Made Simple (2018) 2 exemplars
La sabiduria de marco aurelio (1994) 2 exemplars
LOS DOCE LIBROS 2 exemplars
apanta 1 / άπαντα 1 (2006) 2 exemplars
Til meg selv (2021) 2 exemplars
Pensées: Livres II à IV (2008) 2 exemplars
Epistole 1 exemplars
Poemas do Rio Azul (2012) 1 exemplars
O Guia do Imperador 1 exemplars
À soi-même: Pensées (2022) 1 exemplars
Pensées à moi-même (2023) 1 exemplars
Pensées: Livres VII-XII (2016) 1 exemplars
Samomu sebi (2001) 1 exemplars
Epictet 1 exemplars
Suy Tưởng 1 exemplars
Pensieri 1 exemplars
Thought Through the Centuries (2022) 1 exemplars
Ricordi 1 exemplars
Samom sebi 1 exemplars
التأملات 1 exemplars
Moralistas griegos 1 exemplars
Chen si lu (2009) 1 exemplars
Selbstbetrachtung 1 exemplars
Pensées pour soi (2018) 1 exemplars
Selbsbetrachtungen. 1 exemplars
Los estoicos 1 exemplars
Las Virtudes De La Buena Gente (2015) 1 exemplars
Mark Aurels Meditationen (2016) 1 exemplars
Selbstbetrachtungen 1 exemplars

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Nom oficial
Aurelius Antoninus, Marcus
Lloc d'enterrament
Hadrian's Mausoleum
Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
Roman Empire
País (per posar en el mapa)
Italy
Lloc de naixement
Rome
Lloc de defunció
Vindobona or Sermium
Professions
keizer

Membres

Converses

WISDOM OF MARCUS AURELIUS & SAYINGS OF EPICTETUS a Easton Press Collectors (abril 2023)
Meditations? a Ancient History (juny 2016)

Ressenyes

The translation was less elegant than its english counterpart found on Gutenberg.org. Nevertheless the introductory notes were insightful and interesting. It was also funny to see how Aurelius' philosophy is quite similar to buddhist philosophy and psychology.
 
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jd7h | Hi ha 147 ressenyes més | Feb 18, 2024 |
I've read "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius sometime in the Autumn of 2007 after returning to Aberystwyth, Wales from my travels. Given that since June 2007 I was in a deep psychotic state, and just returned from a trans-siberian journey to Mongolia, I wanted to order my embattled mind. Voices, second sight, psychological torment. I was barely capable of reading and making sense of what I read back in the days, after psychoses erupted. Aurelian stoicism helped me cope with this hell, the amusing part is that I got a yellow piece of paper on which I wrote "stoicism applied" and stuck it to my forehead and then paraded through the streets of Aberystwyth raising some interest and mockery throughout. Years later, in 2016 I was suddenly reminded of this reading, I saw a Thyrsus and a Caduceus in the night-sky of Częstochowa, where I visited my then-girlfriend and mistress. The kitchen of that flat was flooded with divine light, and the spirit incarnated into me, as I felt divine pride, great celestial intellect and a commanding paternal tone in a voiceless, silent language. I silently thanked for the consolation that book brought to me in 2007. Then I approached my girl who was sitting next to her laptop and said: "He visited us", she asked: "Whom?", I said "The Emperor visited us". She said: "I'm busy, don't trouble me right now" and went on watching on her youtube videos. Aurelion Therion, the Beast of Solar God was a Pater Patrum in Saturnine rank, a Drakon, and a Pontifex, Julian the Theurgist was a soldier and a magician in his army on Marcomannian campaigns. "Memento Mori" - a phrase coined by him, I might add - "Invictii Genii".… (més)
 
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Saturnin.Ksawery | Hi ha 147 ressenyes més | Jan 12, 2024 |
Didn't finish the whole thing for various reason but got the idea from the first few books. Mostly just repeating basic ideas about right living that are never specified, how people shouldn't complain about their lives because it's right that they're where they are. It was philosophy of acceptance but without any details that made it interesting and with nothing to say to someone who's in a crappy place. Just dull, repetitive and doesn't say anything interesting.
 
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tombomp | Hi ha 147 ressenyes més | Oct 31, 2023 |
A man once told me that philosophy is where good thinking and good writing goes to die. And for about 95% of all philosophy books I have read, he is correct. This however falls into that 5% that actually has something to contribute. Recommended.
 
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everettroberts | Hi ha 147 ressenyes més | Oct 20, 2023 |

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Obres
223
També de
9
Membres
17,977
Popularitat
#1,224
Valoració
4.1
Ressenyes
170
ISBN
722
Llengües
29
Preferit
54

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