Moralia, Volume XII: Concerning the Face Which Appears in the Orb of the Moon. On the Principle of Cold. Whether Fire or Water Is More Useful. Whether Land or Sea Animals Are Cleverer. Beasts Are Rational. On the Eating of Flesh (Loeb Classical Library 406) - Hardcover

Plutarch

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674994477 ISBN 13: 9780674994478

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1957

Synopsis

Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.

Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45–120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given consular rank by the emperor Trajan and a procuratorship in Greece by Hadrian. He was married and the father of one daughter and four sons. He appears as a man of kindly character and independent thought, studious and learned.

Plutarch wrote on many subjects. Most popular have always been the forty-six Parallel Lives, biographies planned to be ethical examples in pairs (in each pair, one Greek figure and one similar Roman), though the last four lives are single. All are invaluable sources of our knowledge of the lives and characters of Greek and Roman statesmen, soldiers and orators. Plutarch’s many other varied extant works, about sixty in number, are known as Moralia or Moral Essays. They are of high literary value, besides being of great use to people interested in philosophy, ethics, and religion.

The Loeb Classical Library edition of the Moralia is in fifteen volumes, volume XIII having two parts. Volume XVI is a comprehensive Index.

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About the Authors

Harold Fredrick Cherniss (1904–1987) was Professor of Greek at the University of California, Berkeley.

William Clark Helmbold (1908–1969) was Professor of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1957
• Language: Greek, Modern (post 1453)
• ISBN 10: 0674994477
• ISBN 13: 9780674994478
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 608