Self-Help : The Meditations Of Marcus Aurelius
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 CONFUSED over the 2002 edition by Hays
I am looking for a review on the 2009 edition not the 2002 edition by Hays. The reviews on the page of the 2009 edition relate to the 2002 edition. This includes the offical Amazon review.
Any input on the 2009 edition?
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I really like Marcus Aurelius and his meditations, but I really did not like this interpretation. The author uses words like "hath" and "feareth". These meditations were originally written in Greek and this book was published in 2009, so I don't see any good purpose for the pontificating classical English interpretation. And such a translation warrants a warning of some kind. "This material is an inaccurate contextualization of the original work, which suggests a time and place disconnected from the actual time and place the author lived in. The original work has been interpreted using a language style foreign to both, the original author and the modern reader". That being said, it may really appeal to Shakespearean junkies.
 NOT THE EDITION PROMISED IN THE AMAZON REVIEW SUMMARY
This is NOT the Hays 2002 translation and edition. The mistake is Amazon's, evidently, not the booksellers': the Amazon summary refers to the Hays 2002 translation, although the image is different. Amazon and the booksellers need to clear this up!
ATROCIOUSLY COPY-EDITED, BADLY TRANSLATED, HORRIBLE LAY-OUT.
Marcus Aurelius is a god among writers.
But, alas, this book is so hideously designed and consists of such a mashup of bad translations, poor Marcus is lost in the shuffle.
This is an old-timey, King James-sounding translation. If you want your Marcus Aurelius straight, pure, modern, un-screwed with, I recommend the Sribner edition-----"The Emperor's Handbook"-----a sensational new translation by David Hicks and C. Scot Hicks.
terrible edition
I have to agree with the review below. The poor editing and number of mistakes in this edition are outrageous. I had never before heard of this so called "Book Jungle" company, but they should be put out of business for selling useless products like this one.
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