Meditations (Casaubon translation)

Meditations (Casaubon translation) is a book by Marcus Aurelius; translated by Meric Casaubon, published in 2001. This Waffle podcast explores the book across 3 episodes.

Beginning with the daily decision to do useful work, this series follows Marcus Aurelius from personal discipline into the emotional pressures of leadership and the harder demands of public responsibility. Meditations, correspondence preserved in the supplied edition, and its historical introduction guide an imagined conversation about duty, anger, fairness, and the distance between a ruler’s ideals and his record.

These episodes are AI-generated adaptations grounded in the book. Listen to the first episode here and continue the series in the Waffle app.