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Moralia: v. 1 (Loeb Classical Library)

Moralia: v. 1 (Loeb Classical Library)

by Plutarch (Author)

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    Hardcover 1989

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Synopsis

Plutarch (c. 45 120 CE) wrote on many subjects. His extant works other than the Parallel Lives are varied, about sixty in number, and known as the Moralia (Moral Essays). They reflect his philosophy about living a good life, and provide a treasury of information concerning Greco-Roman society, traditions, ideals, ethics, and religion.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 512
 Publisher: Loeb
Published: 01 Jul 1989
ISBN 10: 0674992172
ISBN 13: 9780674992177

Media Reviews
This miscellany of essays makes Plutarch the Montaigne or Hazlitt of antiquity. He is best known for his Lives , a series of parallel biographies of heroic exemplification describing the great men of Greece and Rome. But the Moralia are as rich, and even more diverse, containing much to instruct and entertain. Written in Greek during the course of Plutarch's life--he flourished about 100 CE--they had an enormous influence on western culture until a century or two ago. Some are classics in every sense of the word...This is agreeable and civilised stuff, refreshingly contemporaneous despite having been matured for two thousand years in the casks of literature.--A. C. Grayling Financial Times