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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.

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Title: Selected Essays of Plutarch, Vol. II.

Author: Plutarch

Translator: A. O. Prickard

Release date: August 5, 2020 [eBook #62858]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

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Selected Essays of Plutarch

SELECTED ESSAYS OF PLUTARCH
VOL. II
TRANSLATED WITH INTRODUCTION
BY
A. O. PRICKARD
‘But the Author in whom he delighted most was Plutarch, of
whose works he was lucky enough to possess the worthier half;
if the other had perished Plutarch would not have been a popular
writer, but he would have held a higher place in the estimation of
the judicious.’—Southey, The Doctor, chapter vi, p. 1.
OXFORD
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
1918