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Books by Aurelius Marcus mentioned on podcasts
On The Daily Stoic, Ryan Holiday and Tom Junod discussed Marcus Aurelius and his enduring journal, Meditations. Holiday pointed out that Marcus Aurelius opened the work by thanking the teacher who introduced him to Stoic philosophy and loaned him a copy of Epictetus that shaped his life. While traveling in Italy, Holiday brought up Meditations while looking across the Bay of Naples toward Pompeii, wondering if the eruption was mentioned, and reflected on Roman thermal baths mentioned in the text regarding washing off the dust of earthly life. Holiday also referenced teachings from the book on staying present while his young son was hospitalized, and noted that the emperor wrote personal notes to himself inside the imperial palace to stay humble, avoid being stained, control his temper, get up early, quench his desires, and work hard. Tom Junod also mentioned reading Meditations, noting how it impacted him and provided a sense of humanity and time travel. Finally, Holiday mentioned the beginning of the book on a separate episode discussing Robert Rosenkranz, noting how Aurelius started by listing the people whose lives he tried to learn from.
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Meditations
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is a foundational collection of personal reflections and Stoic philosophy written by the Roman emperor.
Discussed“If meditations is antiquity, the Soviet dissident Joseph Brodsky once said, then it is we who are the ruins.”
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