Be careful with the translation you get of Meditations: if the first few paragraphs seem excruciatingly baroque, then you got a bad one--drop it and find a better translation.
I downloaded the one that's free off of iBooks and it was impossible to read. Could you recommend a better translation?
I recently read the Gregory Hays translation [1] and thought it was great. Meditations was Marcus Aurelius's "notes to self" and the Hays edition captures this informal nature. It makes for an easy and delightful read.
I downloaded the one that's free off of iBooks and it was impossible to read. Could you recommend a better translation?