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"The new edition by Robin Waterfield, a British classics scholar, has much to recommend it. The prose is wonderfully sober and taut, the choices felicitous … The volume’s stand-out feature is its wide-ranging set of footnotes, offering assistance to novice readers, insights that will intrigue specialists, and reformulations that clarify Marcus’ thoughts"
- James Romm, Wall Street Journal
"The full and accessible notes make this volume particularly useful for those reading the work as life-guidance, as well as for other readers … The translation … aims at accuracy in conveying the Greek meaning, while at the same time bringing out the content in accessible and expressive English. … Waterfield’s version is highly effective in this aim: the line of thought is clear even in passages where Marcus’ thought processes are somewhat convoluted or oblique, and the English idiom chosen is widely accessible"
- Christopher Gill, Classical Review
"Of all the possible translations to read of Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations, I was happy to read Waterfield’s. He’s a tremendous writer. I thoroughly enjoyed his Greek magnum opus, Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens, so I was looking forward to his translation of this text. He did not disappoint. … If you are looking to read Meditations, and get an introductory understanding of Stoicism, Marcus Aurelius and his world, I would highly recommend Waterfield’s translation of the book. Even scholars who are well versed in Stoicism would find Waterfield’s translation offers something new to the field and is well worth consideration"
- Sandra Alvarez, Ancient History Magazine
"The annotations fully flesh out the intentions and world view of Aurelius, of course. But they work on a deeper level, too. By drawing connections to other ancient texts, as well as more contemporary writers such as Juliana [sic] of Norwich and Kurt Vonnegut, Meditations: The Annotated Edition liberates the book back into the wilds of literature itself. It transforms it from a sort of anti-book into a work deeply embedded in the cross-referentiality of art"
- Scott Beauchamp, Washington Examiner
"Waterfield’s annotation has substantially increased my appreciation and understanding of this great work … What a remarkable gift this book is!"
- Rick Muller, Book Breve
