Who is the father of the man who who translated the personal writing of Marcus Aurelius into English?
Meditations Meditations (Medieval Greek: Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν  "Ta eis heauton" , literally "[those which are] to himself") is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD, recording his private notes to himself and ideas on Stoic philosophy.
Martin Lings Martin Lings (24 January 1909 – 12 May 2005), also known as Abū Bakr Sirāj ad-Dīn, was an English Muslim writer, scholar, and philosopher. A student of the Swiss metaphysician Frithjof Schuon and an authority on the work of William Shakespeare, he is best known as the author of "", first published in 1983 and still in print.