Meditations

essay by Marcus Aurelius
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Meditations
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Meditations

Summary

Meditations is a literary work[1]. Meditations ranks in the top 0.75% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,500 views/month, #214 of 28,446).[2]

Key Facts

  • Meditations authored Marcus Aurelius[3].
  • Meditations's instance of is recorded as literary work[4].
  • Meditations's depicts is recorded as Phantasiai[5].
  • Meditations's Commons category is recorded as Meditations by Marcus Aurelius[6].
  • Meditations's language of work or name is recorded as Koine Greek[7].
  • Meditations's country of origin is recorded as Roman Empire[8].
  • +0200-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Meditations[9].
  • Meditations's has edition or translation is recorded as Marcus Aureliuser Atmachinta[10].
  • Meditations's has edition or translation is recorded as Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, His Meditations concerning himselfe[11].
  • Meditations's has edition or translation is recorded as The Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus[12].
  • Meditations's has edition or translation is recorded as The communings with himself of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus[13].
  • Meditations's has edition or translation is recorded as Q58406987[14].
  • Meditations's has edition or translation is recorded as Q67080728[15].
  • Meditations's has edition or translation is recorded as Q67080880[16].
  • Meditations's has edition or translation is recorded as Q67080909[17].
  • Meditations's has edition or translation is recorded as Q67080896[18].
  • Meditations's has edition or translation is recorded as Q67080901[19].
  • Meditations's has edition or translation is recorded as Meditations[20].
  • Meditations's has edition or translation is recorded as Q110074351[21].
  • Meditations's has edition or translation is recorded as Q110059369[22].
  • Meditations's has edition or translation is recorded as Marcus Aureliuser Atmachinta[23].
  • Meditations's has edition or translation is recorded as M. Antoninus ... ad se ipsum. Recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit I. H. Leopold.[24].
  • Meditations's has edition or translation is recorded as The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus[25].
  • Meditations's has edition or translation is recorded as Q136228738[26].
  • Meditations's has edition or translation is recorded as Q138507557[27].

Body

Authorship and Creation

Meditations authored Marcus Aurelius[3].

Publication

Meditations's language of work or name is recorded as Koine Greek[7].

Subject and Themes

Meditations's main subject is stoicism[28].

Material and Period

Meditations dates from the ancient history[29].

Why It Matters

Meditations ranks in the top 0.75% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,500 views/month, #214 of 28,446).[2] Meditations has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] Meditations is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
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  3. [5] . en.wikisource.org. en.wikisource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  23. [25] . en.wikisource.org. en.wikisource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] . wolnelektury.pl. wolnelektury.pl. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  2. 14d ago · Ian.mezinskii · 2026-05-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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