[Poochigian] has done a wonderful job in working as a conduit for the original ideas and tone of Marcus’s Aurelius’s accidental great work. In Poochigian’s hands Meditations is what it was always meant to be: personal and profound, inquisitive and demanding, grounded and transcendent all at once. Poochigian handles the nuances of both time and language very well. He has returned reading Meditations to the sensation of moving into a new home and finding the journal of the previous owner buried in the far corner of the attic....Aaron Poochigian is the latest to offer you the diary of the man I have come to call 'The Mentor Emperor' and he has created one of Meditations’ most meaningful and profound renditions. —Jason Mott, Book Post

[An] excellent new translation.... Poochigian notes that, along with being a philosopher, Marcus Aurelius was also a literary artist, a point he underscores.—Joseph Epstein, Washington Free Beacon

Today, maybe more than ever, we need Marcus Aurelius . . . Poochigian translates Marcus’ Greek into fluent, colloquial English, at times making the emperor sound like your favorite college professor, at times your therapist . . . This work has been pushing people to live well for two millennia. Now, all we must do is read it again. This new translation makes Marcus’ advice hit home in an English of unaffected dignity. A classic work of philosophical advice, rendered into our vivid modern vernacular.—Kirkus Reviews