Moralia, Volume VII: On Love of Wealth. On Compliancy. On Envy and Hate. On Praising Oneself Inoffensively. On the Delays of the Divine Vengeance. On Fate. On the Sign of Socrates. On Exile. Consolation to His Wife

by Plutarch, Benedict Einarson (Translator), Phillip H. De Lacy (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:	9780674994461
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1959
Series:	Loeb Classical Library , #405
Pages:	640
Product dimensions:	4.25(w) x 6.38(h) x 1.20(d)
Language:	Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

About the Author

Philip Howard De Lacy (1913–2006) was Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Benedict Seneca Einarson (1906–1978) was Professor of Greek at the University of Chicago.

Table of Contents

Preface

Traditional Order Of The Moralia

On Love Of Wealth

Introduction

Text and Translation

On Compliancy

Introduction

Text and Translation

On Envy And Hate

Introduction

Text and Translation

On Praising Oneself Inoffensively

Introduction

Text and Translation

On The Delays Of The Divine Vengeance

Introduction

Text and Translation

On Fate

Introduction

Text and Translation

On The Sign Of Socrates

Introduction

Text and Translation

On Exile

Introduction

Text and Translation

Consolation To His Wife

Introduction

Text and Translation

Index