Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays, Translated with Notes and Index - Couverture souple

Plutarch; Shilleto, Arthur Richard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1420941135 ISBN 13 : 9781420941135

Editeur : Digireads.com, 2011

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Cheeronea in Boeotia, probably about a.d. 50, and was a contemporary ofT acitus 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. The Moralia, on the other hand, consisting of various Essays on various subjects (only twent3-six of which are directly ethical, though they have given their name to theM oralia), are declared by Mr. Paley to be practically almost unknown to most persons in Britain, even to those who call themselves scholars. Hahent etiam sua fata lihelli. In older days theM oralia were more valued. Montaigne, who was a great lover of Plutarch, and who observes in one passage of his Essays that Plutarch andS eneca were the only two books of solid learning he seriously settled himself to read, quotes as much from theM oralia as from theL ives. And in the seventeenth century I cannot but think theM oralia were largely read at our Universities, at least at the University of Cambridge. For, not to mention the wonderful way in which the famous Jeremy Taylor has taken the cream of Conjugal Precepts in hisS ermon called The Marriage Ring, or the large and copious useS ee article Plutarch, in Encyclopaedia Britannica, Ninth Edition.
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• Éditeur: Digireads.com
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1420941135
• ISBN 13: 9781420941135
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 252