Plutarch, Moralia, vol. 5 / Loeb Classical Library.

Condition : very good.
Volumes : 1 volume.
Binding : publisher's green cloth with dust jacket.
Format : In-16.
Pages : XII, 514 pp.
Editor : Cambridge, Harvard University Press
Date : 1993.

Bilingual Greek and English. The Loeb Classical Library edition of the Moralia comprises 15 volumes.

Plutarch (Plutarchus), c. 45-120 CE, was born in Chaeronea in Boeotia, central Greece. He studied philosophy in Athens and, after coming to Rome as a professor of philosophy, he obtained the rank of consul from the emperor Trajan and a procuratorship in Greece from Hadrian. He was married and had a daughter and four sons. He appears to be a man of amiable character and independent thought, studious and scholarly.
Plutarch wrote on many subjects. The most popular have always been the 46 Parallel Lives, biographies intended to be ethical examples in pairs (in each pair, a similar Greek and Roman figure), although the last four lives are unique. All are invaluable sources for our knowledge of the lives and characters of Greek and Roman statesmen, soldiers and orators. Plutarch's many other varied works, numbering about sixty, are known as the Moralia or Moral Essays. They are of great literary value, as well as being of great use to those interested in philosophy, ethics and religion.

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