A Guide to the Good Life

Re:A Guide to the Good Life by choxi on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @09:25PM (#7433190)

Be careful with the translation you get of Meditations: if the first few paragraphs seem excruciatingly baroque, then you got a bad one--drop it and find a better translation.

I downloaded the one that's free off of iBooks and it was impossible to read. Could you recommend a better translation?

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Re:A Guide to the Good Life by countersixte on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @10:31PM (#7433456)

I recently read the Gregory Hays translation [1] and thought it was great. Meditations was Marcus Aurelius's "notes to self" and the Hays edition captures this informal nature. It makes for an easy and delightful read.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Meditations-New-Translation-Marcus-Aur...

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Re:A Guide to the Good Life by rafaelm on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @09:55PM (#7433316)

I've had this one bookmarked for a while, but unfortunately haven't gotten around to reading it:

http://classics.mit.edu/Antoninus/meditations.html

Don't know if that's easier to read though.

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Re:A Guide to the Good Life by jonnybgood on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @09:56PM (#7433322)

I enjoyed this one. It was an easy going read.

http://www.amazon.com/Meditations-Penguin-Great-Marcus-Aurel...

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