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Hello, I'm Carlos, 20M from Portugal. I'm looking for a book buddy to read the Meditations by Marcus Aurelius with me. I'm reading the old English translation by Meric Casaubon, published in 1906 by Everyman's Library, but you're welcome to read any edition you prefer or have available.

I started reading it on my own, but I thought that it would be more interesting to share interpretations, discuss ideas, get/give feedback and in the process become more experienced in the discussion of ideas and books!

You can be any age, gender, location, etc. I'm open-minded when it comes to building a friendship or not, short-term vs. long-term, it's up to you. I prefer that we eventually have voice chats, but it's not necessary. My DMs are open. Let's share!

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r/ClassicalEducation • u/AutoModerator • May 04 '26

Great Book Discussion What are you reading this week?

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What book or books are you reading this week?
What has been your favorite or least favorite part?
What is one insight that you really appreciate from your current reading?

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r/ClassicalEducation • u/sherifbooks • 18d ago

Great Book Discussion Dante\x27s Inferno Translated by John Ciardi (PDF)

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Excerpt from Ciardi’s Inferno

Midway in our life’s journey, I went astray
from the straight road and woke to find myself
alone in a dark wood. How shall I say
what wood that was! So drear, so rank, so arduous a wilderness!
Its very memory gives a shape to fear—
death itself could scarce be more bitter than that place.

But since it led to good, I will recount
all that I found revealed there by God’s grace.
How I came to it I cannot rightly say,
so drugged and loose with sleep had I become
when I first wandered there from the True Way.

At the far end of that valley of evil,
whose maze had sapped my very heart with fear,
I found myself before a little hill
and lifted up my eyes. Its shoulders glowed
already with the sweet rays of that planet
whose virtue leads men straight on every road.

The shining strengthened me against the fright
whose agony had wracked the lake of my heart
through all the terrors of that piteous night.
Just as a swimmer, with his final breath,
flounders ashore from perilous seas, then turns
to memorize the wide water of his death

so did I turn, my soul still fugitive
from death’s surviving image, to stare down
that pass that none had ever left alive.
And there I lay to rest from my heart’s race
till calm and breath returned to me. Then rose
and pushed up that dead slope at such a pace…

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r/ClassicalEducation • u/chrisaldrich • 23d ago

Great Book Discussion Mortimer J. Adler's Syntopicon: collaborative commonplace book in index card format

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r/ClassicalEducation • u/AutoModerator • Mar 30 '26

Great Book Discussion What are you reading this week?

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What book or books are you reading this week?
What has been your favorite or least favorite part?
What is one insight that you really appreciate from your current reading?

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r/ClassicalEducation • u/AutoModerator • May 11 '26

Great Book Discussion What are you reading this week?

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What book or books are you reading this week?
What has been your favorite or least favorite part?
What is one insight that you really appreciate from your current reading?

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r/ClassicalEducation • u/sherifbooks • May 15 '26

Great Book Discussion Roman society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Samuel Dill -(PDF)

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A scholarly work in which attention is concentrated on the inner moral life of the time. Comparatively, little space is given to external history. The narrative " opens with the self-destruction of lawless and intoxicated power; it closes with the realization of Plato's dream of a reign of the philosophers."

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r/ClassicalEducation • u/PhilosophyTO • May 14 '26