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Language: English
Published by Harvard University Press, 1969
- Hardcover
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Very minor shelfwear to book. DJ has chipping and tears. DJ is price-clipped.; (The Education of Children. How the Young Man Should Study Poetry. On Listening to Lectures. How to Tell a Flatterer from a Friend. How a Man may become aware of his Progress In Virtue); Loeb Classical Library No. 197; 1; 512 pages.
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- Title
- PLUTARCH'S MORALIA; Volume I: 1 A-86 A
- Author
- Plutarch; Frank Cole Babbitt
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Publication year
- 1969
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Good+
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0674992172
- ISBN 13
- 9780674992177
- Series
- Book 12 of 28: Loeb Classical Library: Plutarch
- Seller catalogs
- Greek Literature, Loeb Classical Library, Recent Acquisitions
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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