Selected Essays and Dialogues - Plutarch - Books - Oxford University Press - 9780192830944 - August 12, 1993
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This new translation of a selection of Plutarch's miscellaneous works - the "Moralia" - illustrates his thinking on religious, ethical, social, and political issues. Two genres are represented: the dialogue, which Plutarch wrote in a tradition nearer to Cicero than to Plato, and the informal treatise or essay, in which his personality is most clearly displayed. His diffuse and individual style conveys a character of great charm and authority. Plutarch's works have been admired and imitated in Western literature since the Renaissance. Montaigne, who read Amyot's translation, considered Plutarch's "Moralia" to be a "breviary", a book without which "we ignorant folk would have been lost". For Ralph Waldo Emerson it was a favourite bedside book, and an inspiration: "a poet might rhyme all day with hints drawn from Plutarch, page on page".

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released August 12, 1993
ISBN13 9780192830944
Publishers Oxford University Press
Pages 460
Dimensions 110 × 180 × 25 mm   ·   244 g
Language English  

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