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Title: Moralia, Volume XIII Condition: New Subtitle: Part I: Platonic Essays Author: Plutarch Translator: Harold Cherniss Contributor: Harold Cherniss (Translated by) Format: Hardback ISBN-10: 0674994701 EAN: 9780674994706 ISBN: 9780674994706 Publisher: Harvard University Press Genre: Literary Criticism Release Date: 01/01/1976 Description: 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. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 162mm Item Length: 108mm Item Width: 20mm Item Weight: 254g Book Series: Loeb Classical Library Release Year: 1976 Missing Information?
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