A lively and informative new podcast for kids that the whole family will enjoy. Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. Harvard University Press. References to the Moralia generally use the traditional page numbering , but often translations display no page numbers or divisions at all. The Oracles at Delphi No Longer Given in Verse, Whether Vice Be Sufficient to Cause Unhappiness, Whether Affections of the Soul Are Worse than Those of the Body, That a Philosopher Ought to Converse Especially with Men in Power, Whether an Old Man Should Engage in Public Affairs, Summary of a Comparison Between Aristophanes and Menander, Concerning the Face Which Appears in the Orb of the Moon, On the Generation of the Soul in the Timaeus, Epitome of 'On the Generation of the Soul in the Timaeus', The Stoics Talk More Paradoxically than the Poets, That Epicurus Actually Makes a Pleasant Life Impossible, Reply to Colotes in Defence of the Other Philosophers, Stanford University Copyright Renewal Database, University of Pennsylvania copyright records scans, https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Plutarch%27s_Moralia_(Loeb)&oldid=7079435, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Plutarch's Moralia, Moral Essays reflecting his philosophy about living a good life, is a treasury of information concerning Greco-Roman society, traditions, ideals, ethics, and religion. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. Cambridge, MA. Die Moralia Plutarchs sind in vollständiger deutscher Übersetzung zuletzt zwischen 1828 und 1861 in der von Christian Nathanael v. Osiander und Gustav Schwab her-ausgegebenen Reihe Griechische Prosaiker in neuen Uebersetzungen erschienen. This problem has at last been solved: the Loeb Classical Library's edition of the Moralia is now brought to completion with an analytical Index volume. The literary value of both is enhanced by the frequent quotation of Greek poems, especially verses of Euripides and other dramatists. The former vary from a collection of set speeches to informal conversation pieces set among members of Plutarch’s family circle; the date and dramatic occasion are rarely indicated. Plutarch's Moralia (Loeb) From Wikisource. 4. They give an insight into Roman and Greek life, but often are also fascinating timeless observations in … London. 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. By signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from Encyclopaedia Britannica. Plutarch wrote a lot (the modern Loeb translation of the Moralia runs to fifteen volumes) and it can be difficult to hunt down a small section in the mass of his works. Some pages damaged with loss of content. Among them are “Vice and Virtue,” “How to Recognize Progress in Virtue” (dedicated, like the Lives, to Sosius Senecio), “How to Distinguish a Flatterer from a Friend,” “On Having Many Friends,” and “On Fortune.” Another group of a rhetorical and epideictic character includes the historical essays “On the Fortune of Alexander,” “On the Fortune of the Romans,” and “Whether the Athenians Were More Famous in War or in Wisdom”; those resemble the traditional topics of declamation, and parallel to them are “Whether Water or Fire Is More Useful,” “Whether Virtue Can Be Taught,” and “Whether Mental or Bodily Afflictions Are the Worse.”. “Gryllus” is an entertaining dialogue set on Circe’s island in which a pig, one of Odysseus’s transformed companions, attacks the Stoic argument denying reason to animals and convinces Odysseus of the moral superiority of many animals over humans. Contemporary with those is “On Isis and Osiris,” with its mystical tones. However these volumes were themselves merely a corrected version of an earlier translation, made by "forty or fifty university men" in 1684-94 - a remarkable early exercise in collaborative translation, even if their efforts were "careless and vicious in parts", as Emerson says.