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Moralia, Volume II

How to Profit by One’s Enemies. On Having Many Friends. Chance. Virtue and Vice. Letter of Condolence to Apollonius. Advice About Keeping Well. Advice to Bride and Groom. The Dinner of the Seven Wise Men. Superstition
By Plutarch
Series: Loeb Classical Library
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Moralia, Volume II is part of Plutarch's extensive collection of essays on ethics, philosophy, and religion. These writings offer valuable insights into the moral and intellectual life of ancient Greece and Rome, reflecting the author's studious and independent thought.
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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.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780674992450

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 January 1928

Country: United States

Imprint: LOEB

Illustration: Index

Contributors:

  • Translated by Frank Cole Babbitt

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 108.0mm

Height: 162.0mm

Weight: 386g

Pages: 528

Collections

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

About the Author

Frank Cole Babbitt (1867–1935) was the Hobart Professor of Greek Language and Literature at Trinity College, Hartford.

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