Moralia, Volume XIII: Part II: Stoic Essays

by Plutarch, Harold Cherniss (Translator)

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:	9780674995178
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1976
Series:	Loeb Classical Library , #470
Edition description:	3rd printing/1st pub.1976
Pages:	544
Product dimensions:	4.25(w) x 6.38(h) x 1.10(d)
Language:	Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

About the Author

Harold Fredrick Cherniss (1904–1987) was Professor of Greek at the University of California, Berkeley.

Table of Contents

Preface

The Traditional Order Of The Books Of The Moralia

On Stoic Self-Contradictions

Introduction

Text and Translation

The Stoics Talk More Paradoxically Than The Poets

Introduction

Text and Translation

Against The Stoics On Common Conceptions

Introduction

Text and Translation

Index