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Haines: desertcart.co.uk: Books Review: Fascinating insight into an entirely different way of seeing the world - Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher-emperor, marks the high point of pagan thought in the late Roman empire. This Loeb edition collects all of his (then) known works, principally in Greek but also in Latin, and provides an edition of the text with footnotes, facing (as the Loeb always does) a modernish English translation. Like much of Loeb, this volume is now quite elderly, though, with a static corpus and a relatively uncontroversial text, it does not particularly show its age except in the grammar of the English text. The translation was entirely new for this edition. However, it is written in archaising English with 'thee' and 'thou' to distinguish Greek and Latin second person singular from plural. Back at the end of the 19th century, this was still relatively common practice, although, except in dialects and poetry, these words had fallen out of common use a couple of hundred years before. To 21st century readers, it initially comes across as rather distant. However, after a few pages of reading, this fades from the mind. It's probably worth admitting that one would not read Marcus Aurelius now as self-help—though, in effect, that is what this book principally is, giving screeds of wise advice. However, as a window into the mind of a pagan stoic, this is incomparable. What is fascinating to modern readers is the way Marcus Aurelius weaves what would now be considered to be secular ethics in with ideas of what the gods require, and what they are likely to do. On the one hand this is the writings of a sensible man who expects relatively little from the gods, and uses them in many senses as metaphysical hypotheticals—"if the gods… either they will… or they will…" On the other, he is also writing as an emperor who accepts the notion that his predecessors are divine, and, one would imagine, expects to be accorded the same divinity later. What it reveals to us is therefore an extraordinary insight into a religious viewpoint which is utterly foreign to the Abrahamic tradition: an impersonal faith, where the gods can be invoked as proxies in discussions of ethics, but where action is thoroughly in the human sphere. Review: Five Stars - very good quality ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | 126,154 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 867 in Essays, Journals & Letters 3,345 in Philosophy (Books) 13,535 in History (Books) | | Customer reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (191) | | Dimensions | 10.8 x 2.03 x 16.19 cm | | Edition | Revised | | ISBN-10 | 0674990641 | | ISBN-13 | 978-0674990647 | | Item weight | 1.05 kg | | Language | English | | Print length | 448 pages | | Publication date | 1 July 1989 | | Publisher | Loeb | ## Images ![Marcus Aurelius (Loeb Classical Library 58) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51Ih2BnxCIL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fascinating insight into an entirely different way of seeing the world *by M***R on 17 December 2015* Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher-emperor, marks the high point of pagan thought in the late Roman empire. This Loeb edition collects all of his (then) known works, principally in Greek but also in Latin, and provides an edition of the text with footnotes, facing (as the Loeb always does) a modernish English translation. Like much of Loeb, this volume is now quite elderly, though, with a static corpus and a relatively uncontroversial text, it does not particularly show its age except in the grammar of the English text. The translation was entirely new for this edition. However, it is written in archaising English with 'thee' and 'thou' to distinguish Greek and Latin second person singular from plural. Back at the end of the 19th century, this was still relatively common practice, although, except in dialects and poetry, these words had fallen out of common use a couple of hundred years before. To 21st century readers, it initially comes across as rather distant. However, after a few pages of reading, this fades from the mind. It's probably worth admitting that one would not read Marcus Aurelius now as self-help—though, in effect, that is what this book principally is, giving screeds of wise advice. However, as a window into the mind of a pagan stoic, this is incomparable. What is fascinating to modern readers is the way Marcus Aurelius weaves what would now be considered to be secular ethics in with ideas of what the gods require, and what they are likely to do. On the one hand this is the writings of a sensible man who expects relatively little from the gods, and uses them in many senses as metaphysical hypotheticals—"if the gods… either they will… or they will…" On the other, he is also writing as an emperor who accepts the notion that his predecessors are divine, and, one would imagine, expects to be accorded the same divinity later. What it reveals to us is therefore an extraordinary insight into a religious viewpoint which is utterly foreign to the Abrahamic tradition: an impersonal faith, where the gods can be invoked as proxies in discussions of ethics, but where action is thoroughly in the human sphere. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Five Stars *by L***I on 26 March 2016* very good quality ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A book by a chum of mine *by C***N on 18 October 2003* Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Caesar; a name that could cause traffic jams. However, we are talking about a great man who recorded for posterity his inner most thoughts and his weaknesses. His legacy is his self doubt, self analysis and his belief in the enduring good of Mankind. Humble and realistic, this man was Emperor of Rome, take note Bush and Blair. I salute him. ## Frequently Bought Together - Marcus Aurelius (Loeb Classical Library) - Discourses, Books 1–2 (Loeb Classical Library) - Epictetus: Discourses, Books 3-4. The Encheiridion. 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