A selection of Plutarch's Moralia gathers primarily dialogic essays that probe ethical, religious, and intellectual topics, alongside a short treatise on superstition. The pieces debate the nature of daemons and oracles, the face on the moon, delays in divine punishment, and the soul's guiding genius, interweaving moral argument, literary quotation, and classical exempla. The translator supplies textual notes, occasional running analyses to help identify speakers, references to poetic and philosophical sources, and an index of names, while preserving variant readings and offering measured emendations for difficult passages.