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Moralia, Volume XIV

That Epicurus Actually Makes a Pleasant Life Impossible. Reply to Colotes in Defence of the Other Philosophers. Is “Live Unknown” a Wise Precept? On Music
By Plutarch
Series: Loeb Classical Library
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Moralia, Volume XIV collects some of Plutarch's most thoughtful essays, exploring themes in philosophy, ethics, and religion. Through these moral essays, Plutarch offers reflections on human character and conduct, drawing on his vast learning and independent outlook in the Greco-Roman world. This volume is part of the renowned Loeb Classical Library edition, preserving the literary and intellectual value of Plutarch's works for modern readers.
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Ideal for readers interested in classical philosophy, ancient ethics, and cultural history, as well as scholars seeking authoritative texts from the Greco-Roman era.

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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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Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. 45–120 CE, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece. He 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 46 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 60 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.

Series: Loeb Classical Library

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780674994720

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 January 1967

Country: United States

Imprint: Harvard University Press

Illustration: Index

Contributors:

  • Translated by Phillip H. De Lacy
  • Translated by Benedict Einarson
  • Translated by Phillip H. De Lacy
  • Translated by Benedict Einarson
  • Translated by Phillip H. De Lacy
  • Translated by Benedict Einarson

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 108.0mm

Height: 162.0mm

Weight: 363g

Pages: 480

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Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir Non-Fiction Plutarch Series: Loeb Classical Library

About the Author

Benedict Seneca Einarson (1906–1978) was Professor of Greek at the University of Chicago. Philip Howard De Lacy (1913–2006) was Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

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