Track | Section | Reader | Length |
01 | 00 - Introduction | Aegist | 2:32 |
02 | 01 - His First Book I - XVI | Kevin McAsh | 16:11 |
03 | 02 - The Second Book I - XV | Kevin McAsh | 13:38 |
04 | 03 - The Third Book I - XVII | Aegist | 17:25 |
05 | 04 - The Fourth Book I - XLIII | Davyobrian | 28:32 |
06 | 05 - The Fifth Book I - XXX | Cicoree | 32:22 |
07 | 06 - The Sixth Book I - LIV | ontheroad | 27:28 |
08 | 07 - The Seventh Book I - XLIV | davyobrian | 32:14 |
09 | 08 - The Eighth Book I - LVIII | D. S. Harvey | 31:05 |
10 | 09 - The Ninth Book I - XLIII | Fr. Richard Zeile of Detroit | 32:24 |
11 | 10 - The Tenth Book I - XXXVIII | ML Cohen | 28:12 |
12 | 11 - The Eleventh Book I - XXXI | Leon Mire | 25:32 |
13 | 12 - The Twelfth Book I - XXVII | Leon Mire | 22:42 |
14 | 13 - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus | Leon Mire | 42:42 |
15 | 14 - The Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius | ML Cohen | 57:28 |
Notes
Running Time: 6 hours 49 minutes
Read by: Multiple readers
Book Coordinator: ML Cohen
Meta Coordinator: Kirsten Ferreri
Artwork
Cover: Photo of bust of Marcus Aurelius in Glyptothek, Munich, Room 11 by Bibi Saint-Pol, 2007.
DVD Inset: Photo of Buste cuirassé de Marc Aurèle âgé marble sculpture at L'Image et le Pouvoir : le siècle des Antonins, Musée Saint-Raymond, by Pierre-Selim, 2012.
DVD Insert: Marble portrait bust of Marcus Aurelius. Roman, Antonine period, 161-180 AD. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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One hears the term Roman Emperor, and at once the very bad ones come to mind: Caligula, Nero, Domitian, and Commodus, among others. But not all the emperors were dissolute, arrogant, or insane. Marcus Aurelius remains as a proximate incarnation of those qualities Plato had written about in The Republic as belonging to the best of leaders: Marcus Aurelius was, in fact, a philosopher-king. The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, comprised of twelve books, set forth the great man’s thoughts and musings on the judgment of himself and others in accord with those principles of stoicism that look to nature for truths, imminent and transcendent. Unlike so many of his predecessors and unlike his son, Commodus, Marcus Aurelius actually concerned himself with the moral imperative of goodness and reflected often on what it meant to be a good man. “Alone of the emperors,” wrote the historian Herodian, “he gave proof of his learning not by mere words or knowledge of philosophical doctrines but by his blameless character and temperate way of life.” The meditations are the written manifestation of Aurelian thought, set down in passages as short as a sentence, as long as an extended paragraph. The effect is cumulative and, even without favorable contrast to the persecuting emperors, Nero and Domitian, Marcus Aurelius distinguished himself as a philosopher, a thinker and a writer, as well as a man of military might and strategic skill. (Summary by Michael Hogan)
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Item Info | |
EAN - DVD case | 0684758936424 |
EAN - CD jacket | 0682550991238 |
Media | MP3 CD |
Package | DVD Case |
Author | Marcus Aurelius (129 - 180 AD) |
Translator | George Long (1800 - 1879) |
Year | Written c. 170 - 180 AD; First English translation - 1634 |
Recording | |
Read by | Multiple readers |
Length | 6 hours 50 minutes |
Type of Reading | Collaborative |
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
- Author: Marcus Aurelius
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