Moralia, V: Isis and Osiris. The E at Delphi. The Oracles at Delphi No Longer Given in Verse. The Obsolescence of Oracles

Moralia, V: Isis and Osiris. The E at Delphi. The Oracles at Delphi No Longer Given in Verse. The Obsolescence of Oracles

Moralia, V: Isis and Osiris. The E at Delphi. The Oracles at Delphi No Longer Given in Verse. The Obsolescence of Oracles

Moralia, V: Isis and Osiris. The E at Delphi. The Oracles at Delphi No Longer Given in Verse. The Obsolescence of Oracles

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780674993372
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 01/01/1936
Series: Loeb Classical Library , #306
Edition description: 6th printing/1st pub.1936
Pages: 528
Sales rank: 944,449
Product dimensions: 4.25(w) x 6.38(h) x 1.00(d)
Language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Preface

Traditional Order Of The Moralia

Isis And Osiris

Introduction

Text and Translation

The E At Delphi

Introduction

Text and Translation

The Oracles At Delphi No Longer Given In Verse

Introduction

Text and Translation

The Obsolescence Of Oracles

Introduction

Text and Translation

Index

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