Classics Scholar Robin Waterfield on Translating Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations - Pt.2
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🗓️ 1 May 2021
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On today’s episode, Ryan talks to Robin Waterfield about his new annotated translation of Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, the art of translating ancient texts, the key Stoic concepts that Marcus writes about in Meditations, and more.
Robin Waterfield is a British classical scholar, translator, and editor, specializing in Ancient Greek philosophy. He studied Classics at Manchester University and went on to research ancient Greek philosophy at King's College, Cambridge. He lives in Greece.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoke podcast early and add free on Amazon music download the app today |
| 0:10.5 | Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoke each weekday |
| 0:14.8 | We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes |
| 0:18.7 | Something to help you live up to those four stoic virtues of courage justice |
| 0:23.9 | Temperance and wisdom and then here on the weekend |
| 0:27.0 | We take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview stoic philosophers. We explore at length |
| 0:35.0 | How these stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenging issues of our time |
| 0:42.8 | Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down |
| 0:47.8 | Be sure to take some time to think to go for a walk to sit with your journal and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring |
| 1:01.2 | Hey, it's Ryan welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoke podcast on Wednesday |
| 1:07.7 | You listen to my first hour with the pureless robin waterfield on |
| 1:12.8 | Marcus really is who he was what made him tick why he matters and in the second hour of the conversation we pivot more towards |
| 1:22.0 | Meditations itself |
| 1:24.0 | How does one translate a great work like this? What are the passages that stand out? |
| 1:30.0 | Why does Marcus matter so much? What can he teach us? What did the stoic teach and how did they influence Marcus? |
| 1:37.6 | You know, we talk about some of the differences between |
| 1:39.6 | Robbins translation his new annotated edition some of the annotations in fact |
| 1:45.5 | We also talk about the Gregory Hayes translation a little bit and Marcus's influence as we talk about epic teedis |
| 1:51.3 | Robin is hard at work on a translation of epic teedis anyways |
| 1:54.5 | I cannot tell you how much I enjoyed this conversation think you're really gonna like this do check out |
| 1:59.9 | Robin waterfields Marcus realizes meditations the annotated edition |
| 2:04.1 | I learned a lot even having already gone through Marcus are really us all the times that I've gone through it every time |
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