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Moralia. The Moralia ( Latin for "Morals" or "Customs and Mores"; Greek: Ἠθικά, Ethiká) is a group of manuscripts written in Ancient Greek dating from the 10th–13th centuries but traditionally ascribed to the 1st-century scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea. [1] The eclectic collection contains 78 essays and transcribed speeches.
- c. 100 AD
- Roman Greece
Jun 26, 2019 · Plutarch's Moralia. v. 1. The education of children -- How the young man should study poetry -- On listening to lectures -- How to tell a flatterer from a friend -- How a man may become aware of his progress in virtue -- v. 2.
Nov 27, 2007 · Plutarch, who was born at Chæronea in Bœotia, probably about A.D. 50, and was a contemporary of Tacitus and Pliny, has written two works still extant, the well-known Lives, and the less-known Moralia. The Lives have often been translated, and have always been a popular work. Great indeed was their power at the period of the French Revolution.
Plutarch - Biographer, Philosopher, Historian: Plutarch’s surviving writings on ethical, religious, physical, political, and literary topics are collectively known as the Moralia, or Ethica, and amount to more than 60 essays cast mainly in the form of dialogues or diatribes. The former vary from a collection of set speeches to informal conversation pieces set among members of Plutarch’s ...
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. W. C. Helmbold. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1939. 6. The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text. This text was converted to electronic form by optical character recognition and has been proofread to a high level ...
Jan 13, 2014 · The non-biographical output of Plutarch of Chaeronea (b. c . 45–d. c . 120 AD) is traditionally grouped together under the label “ Moralia ” (alternative titles include “Moral Works,” “Morals,” “Ethika,” and “Ethica”). Although by no means all works within the group deal with ethics, an important subgroup, placed at the ...
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 ...
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