Meditations
$36.86
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
6 March 2026
Summary
Acclaimed poet and translator Aaron Poochigian’s vibrant new translation of Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations captures and accentuates an aspect of the best-selling work of classical antiquity that other English translations have, remarkably, overlooked: Marcus’ distinct, varying voices. There’s Marcus the aspirant, speaking encouragingly to himself as a diarist might; Marcus the instructor, exhorting and chiding himself as a “you” that includes us all; Marcus the stylist, spinning memorable, quotable epigrams; and Marcus the philosopher, opining about the “human commonwealth” of which we are all members. This multivocal chorus is apparent to all who can read the original Koine Greek text, but Poochigian’s sensitive ear has captured it in English as no translator has before. The result is a Meditations that is as pleasurable to read as it is profound—a revelation even to readers who think they know it well.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781324096399 |
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| ISBN-10: | 132409639X |
| Author: | Marcus Aurelius, Aaron Poochigian |
| Publisher: | W W Norton & Co Ltd |
| Imprint: | Liveright Publishing Corporation |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 6 March 2026 |
| Weight: | 412g |
| Dimensions: | 31mm x 140mm x 211mm |
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Critics Review
[Poochigian] has done a wonderful job in working as a conduit for the original ideas and tone of Marcus’s Aurelius’s accidental great work. In Poochigian’s hands Meditations is what it was always meant to be: personal and profound, inquisitive and demanding, grounded and transcendent all at once. Poochigian handles the nuances of both time and language very well. He has returned reading Meditations to the sensation of moving into a new home and finding the journal of the previous owner buried in the far corner of the attic….Aaron Poochigian is the latest to offer you the diary of the man I have come to call ‘The Mentor Emperor’ and he has created one of Meditations’ most meaningful and profound renditions.–Jason Mott “Book Post”
Marcus Aurelius
Aaron Poochigian has published four books of poetry and several translations, including Aristophanes: Four Plays (2021) and Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments by Sappho (2009). He lives in New York City.
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