Gregory Hays provides the best modern translation of Marcus Aurelius
Ryan Holiday · #11 Ryan Holiday: The Stoic Whisperer · May 16, 2016 · at 3:40
Author Ryan Holiday discusses translation choices for classic Stoic philosophical texts with Shane Parrish.
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“Every generation needs its own translation because a book like Mark Ceruleus, he's writing to himself in colloquial personal language. So, when you see, like, thou shall not, that's not, he didn't say that. That's what someone in the Like, 17th century would have said. And so you, I think you want to read the best translation you can, and right now that's Gregory Hayes.”
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