Selected essays and dialogues
β Plutarchos, Donald Andrew Russell
π Library
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1993
π Oxford Univ. Press
π English
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Selected Essays and Dialogues
β Scribed by Plutarch; Donald Russell
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- Oxford University Press
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- 1993
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- English
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- 466
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- Oxford Worldβs Classics
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- Library
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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.'.
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