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Product: Moralia Volume 1: 26 Ethical Essays
Description: Though best known now for his collection of lively and vivid Parallel Lives from ancient Greece and Rome, Plutarch (c46 CD-120 CE) was, for centuries, more respected for his Moralia, a remarkable and wide-ranging collection of essays and speeches. No fewer than 78 in total, they range over a broad list of topics in which Plutarch observes, dispenses wisdom, admonishes, entertains and informs: covering social issues and politics, manners and religion - in short, life in general.

In this collection, volume 1 of the Ukemi series, are 26 Ethical Essays, a fascinating compilation, again wide-ranging: 'On Education of Children', 'On Love to One’s Offspring', 'On Virtue and Vice', 'On Abundance of Friends', 'On Contentedness of Mind' and many more. It also includes the moving 'Consolatory Letter to His Wife'. Some of Plutarch’s views reflect the environment of a highly educated Greek living in the milieu of the first-century Roman Empire ­- his comments on conjugal precepts may raise eyebrows when viewed through a 21st-century prism. But much of what he proposes and concludes is as relevant today as in his own time, and in the time of Montaigne (1533-1592) (who regarded the Moralia very highly), and in succeeding centuries.

Matthew Lloyd Davies presents Plutarch sympathetically, making these essays eminently absorbing. Selection and translation by Richard Shilleto.
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Product: The Works of Plutarch: Parallel Lives, Moralia, and Symposiacs (With Active Table of Contents)
Description: This collection gathers together the works by Plutarch in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume!
Parallel Lives (Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans)
Moralia (The Morals)
Symposiacs (A Part of the Moralia)
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Plutarch was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia. He was born to a prominent family in Chaeronea, Boeotia, a town about twenty miles east of Delphi.
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Product: Moralia [Annotated] (With Active Table of Contents)
Description: The Moralia of the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea is an eclectic collection of 78 essays and transcribed speeches. They give an insight into Roman and Greek life, but often are also fascinating timeless observations in their own right. Many generations of Europeans have read or imitated them, including Montaigne and the Renaissance Humanists and Enlightenment philosophers.
The Moralia include On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander the Great — an important adjunct to his Life of the great general — On the Worship of Isis and Osiris (a crucial source of information on Egyptian religious rites), and On the Malice of Herodotus (which may, like the orations on Alexander's accomplishments, have been a rhetorical exercise), in which Plutarch criticizes what he sees as systematic bias in the Father of History's work; along with more philosophical treatises, such as On the Decline of the Oracles, On the Delays of the Divine Vengeance, On Peace of Mind and lighter fare, such as Odysseus and Gryllus, a humorous dialog between Homer's Odysseus and one of Circe's enchanted pigs. The Moralia were composed first, while writing the Lives occupied much of the last two decades of Plutarch's own life.
Some editions of the Moralia include several works now known to be pseudepigrapha: among these are the Lives of the Ten Orators (biographies of the Ten Orators of ancient Athens, based on Caecilius of Calacte), The Doctrines of the Philosophers, and On Music. One "pseudo-Plutarch" is held responsible for all of these works, though their authorship is of course unknown. Though the thoughts and opinions recorded are not Plutarch's and come from a slightly later era, they are all classical in origin and have value to the historian.
The book is famously the first reference to the problem of the Chicken and the egg.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Plutarch was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia. He was born to a prominent family in Chaeronea, Boeotia, a town about twenty miles east of Delphi.
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Product: Plutarch: Moralia, Volume XVI, Index (Loeb Classical Library No. 499)
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Product: Plutarch: Moralia, Volume XIII, Part 2. Stoic Essays (Loeb Classical Library No. 470)
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Product: Plutarch: Moralia, Volume XIV, That Epicurus Actually Makes a Pleasant Life Impossible. Reply to Colotes in Defence of the Other Philosophers... (Loeb Classical Library No. 428)
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Product: Plutarch: Moralia, Volume VII, On Love of Wealth. On Compliancy. On Envy and Hate. On Praising Oneself Inoffensively. On the Delays of the Divine Vengeance. On Fate... (Loeb Classical Library No. 405)
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Product: Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated) (Delphi Ancient Classics Book 13)
Description: Beloved as a writer of exciting biographies and renowned for his philanthropic essays on almost any subject possible, Plutarch created a diverse range of works that have entertained generations of readers since the days of Imperial Rome. Delphi’s Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English translations and the original Greek texts. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works of Plutarch, with beautiful illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)
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* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Plutarch's life and works
* Features the complete works of Plutarch, in both English translation and the original Greek
* Concise introductions to the works
* Provides the complete PARALLEL LIVES and the complete extant essays of MORALIA, for the first time in digital printing
* Includes many translations previously appearing in Loeb Classical Library editions of Plutarch’s works
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Easily locate the biographies and treatises you want to read with individual contents tables
* Features two bonus biographies - discover Plutarch's ancient world
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
CONTENTS:
The Translations
PARALLEL LIVES
MORALIA
The Greek Texts
LIST OF GREEK TEXTS
The Biographies
INTRODUCTION TO PLUTARCH by Bernadotte Perrin
LIFE OF PLUTARCH by Aubrey Stewart
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Product: Plutarch's Moralia, Vol. 10 (Loeb Classical Library No. 321) (Greek and English Edition)
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Product: Plutarch: Moralia, Volume V, Isis and Osiris. The E at Delphi. The Oracles at Delphi No Longer Given in Verse. The Obsolescence of Oracles. (Loeb Classical Library No. 306)
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Product: Plutarch: Moralia, Volume IV, Roman Questions. Greek Questions. Greek and Roman Parallel Stories. On the Fortune of the Romans. On the Fortune or the ... in Wisdom? (Loeb Classical Library No. 305)
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Product: Plutarch: Moralia, Volume III (Loeb Classical Library No. 245)
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Product: Plutarch: Moralia, Volume II (Loeb Classical Library No. 222)
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Product: Plutarch: Moralia, Volume I (The Education of Children. How the Young Man Should Study Poetry. On Listening to Lectures. How to Tell a Flatterer from ... in Virtue) (Loeb Classical Library No. 197)
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Product: Plutarch: Moralia, Volume VI, Can Virtue Be Taught? On Moral Virtue. On the Control of Anger. On Tranquility of Mind. On Brotherly Love. On Affection ... a Busybody (Loeb Classical Library No. 337)
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