The Stoic Emperor Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Stoic Meditations: The Daily Stoic Ways to Think Like a Roman Emperor - Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance and the Art of Living
Marcus EpictetusThe Stoic Emperor@tommycollison Read the Enchiridion of Epictetus, Seneca’s Letters from a Stoic, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. All are quick and easy reads. The popular translations are mostly good. I’d take Martin Hammond or Robin Hard for Meditations. The recent Yale translation of Rufus is also good.
Paperback, 2021
$13.95Member price:$6.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Meditations: Introduction by D. A. Rees
Marcus AureliusThe Stoic Emperor@tommycollison Read the Enchiridion of Epictetus, Seneca’s Letters from a Stoic, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. All are quick and easy reads. The popular translations are mostly good. I’d take Martin Hammond or Robin Hard for Meditations. The recent Yale translation of Rufus is also good.
Hardcover, 1992
$28.00Member price:$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Meditations: With Selected Correspondence
Marcus AureliusThe Stoic Emperor@tommycollison Read the Enchiridion of Epictetus, Seneca’s Letters from a Stoic, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. All are quick and easy reads. The popular translations are mostly good. I’d take Martin Hammond or Robin Hard for Meditations. The recent Yale translation of Rufus is also good.
Paperback, 2011
$9.94Member price:$4.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Meditations
Marcus AureliusThe Stoic Emperor@tommycollison Read the Enchiridion of Epictetus, Seneca’s Letters from a Stoic, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. All are quick and easy reads. The popular translations are mostly good. I’d take Martin Hammond or Robin Hard for Meditations. The recent Yale translation of Rufus is also good.
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Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium
SenecaThe Stoic Emperor@tommycollison Read the Enchiridion of Epictetus, Seneca’s Letters from a Stoic, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. All are quick and easy reads. The popular translations are mostly good. I’d take Martin Hammond or Robin Hard for Meditations. The recent Yale translation of Rufus is also good.
Paperback, 1969
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
On Translating Homer
Mathew ArnoldThe Stoic Emperor@tommycollison Lattimore and Fitzgerald are good, with differing virtues. Both are preferable to the popular Fagles translation. Read Mathew Arnold’s ON TRANSLATING HOMER to put the whole endeavor in perspective.
Paperback, 2022
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