I Tested Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Translated by Gregory Hays: My Honest Take on This Timeless Stoic Classic
When I first encountered *Meditations* in Gregory Hays’s translation, I was struck by how immediate and human Marcus Aurelius feels across nearly two thousand years. What could have remained a distant work of ancient philosophy instead reads like a private conversation with a ruler wrestling with duty, mortality, discipline, and the demands of character. In…
