Plutarchs Essays

Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0140445641
Total Pages : 707 pages
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Download or read book Essays written by Plutarch and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1992 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selections from one of the greatest essayists of the Graeco-Roman world Plutarch used an encyclopedic knowledge of the Roman Empire to produce a compelling and individual voice. In this superb selection from his writings, he offers personal insights into moral subjects that include the virtue of listening, the danger of flattery and the avoidance of anger, alongside more speculative essays on themes as diverse as God's slowness to punish man, the use of reason by supposedly "irrational" animals and the death of his own daughter. Brilliantly informed, these essays offer a treasure-trove of ancient wisdom, myth and philosophy, and a powerful insight into a deeply intelligent man. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140445641
Total Pages : 449 pages
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Download or read book Essays written by Plutarch and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1993-04-06 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selections from one of the greatest essayists of the Graeco-Roman world Plutarch used an encyclopedic knowledge of the Roman Empire to produce a compelling and individual voice. In this superb selection from his writings, he offers personal insights into moral subjects that include the virtue of listening, the danger of flattery and the avoidance of anger, alongside more speculative essays on themes as diverse as God's slowness to punish man, the use of reason by supposedly "irrational" animals and the death of his own daughter. Brilliantly informed, these essays offer a treasure-trove of ancient wisdom, myth and philosophy, and a powerful insight into a deeply intelligent man. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Plutarch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
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Download or read book Plutarch's Essays and Miscellanies written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781853267949
Total Pages : 902 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Lives written by Plutarch and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1998 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plutarch of Chaeronea is one of the great storytellers of antiquity, a writer whose ability to create unforgettable scenes matches the grandeur of his subject matter. The heroes of his Lives were the great men of antiquity, often greatly flawed, but with tragic depth and epic stature. Thomas North's translation, one of the most splendid works of sixteenth-century English prose, presents a vigorous and passionate version of the Lives whose qualities so attracted Shakespeare that he used North as his major source for Julius Caesar, Coriolanus and Antony & Cleopatra. This collection includes all the Lives which Shakespeare used and a selection of others which aim to show the variety and range of Plutarch's writing.

Author : Plutarch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
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Download or read book Plutarch's Essays written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465550186
Total Pages : 1008 pages
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Download or read book Plutarch's Essays and Miscellanies written by Plutarch and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epicurus's great confidant and familiar, Colotes, set forth a book with this title to it, that according to the tenets of the other philosophers it is impossible to live. Now what occurred to me then to say against him, in the defence of those philosophers, hath been already put into writing by me. But since upon breaking up of our lecture several things have happened to be spoken afterwards in the walks in further opposition to his party, I thought it not amiss to recollect them also, if for no other reason, yet for this one, that those who will needs be contradicting other men may see that they ought not to run cursorily over the discourses and writings of those they would disprove, nor by tearing out one word here and another there, or by falling foul upon particular passages without the books, to impose upon the ignorant and unlearned. Now as we were leaving the school to take a walk (as our manner is) in the gymnasium, Zeuxippus began to us: In my opinion, said he, the debate was managed on our side with more softness and less freedom than was fitting. I am sure, Heraclides went away disgusted with us, for handling Epicurus and Aletrodorus more roughly than they deserved. Yet you may remember, replied Theon, how you told them that Colotes himself, compared with the rhetoric of those two gentlemen, would appear the complaisantest man alive; for when they have raked together the lewdest terms of ignominy the tongue of man ever used, as buffooneries, trollings, arrogancies, whorings, assassinations, whining counterfeits, black-guards, and blockheads, they faintly throw them in the faces of Aristotle, Socrates, Pythagoras, Protagoras, Theophrastus, Heraclides, Hipparchus, and which not, even of the best and most celebrated authorities. So that, should they pass for very knowing men upon all other accounts, yet their very calumnies and reviling language would bespeak them at the greatest distance from philosophy imaginable. For emulation can never enter that godlike consort, nor such fretfulness as wants resolution to conceal its own resentments. Aristodemus then subjoined: Heraclides, you know, is a great philologist; and that may be the reason why he made Epicurus those amends for the poetic din (so, that party style poetry) and for the fooleries of Homer; or else, it may be, it was because Metrodorus had libelled that poet in so many books. But let us let these gentlemen pass at present, Zeuxippus, and rather return to what was charged upon the philosophers in the beginning of our discourse, that it is impossible to live according to their tenets.

Author : Plutarch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 566 pages
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Download or read book Plutarch's Essays and Miscellanies written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Plutarque
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 574 pages
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Download or read book -10. Plutarch's essays and miscellanies written by Plutarque and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Plutarch Plutarch
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781378144251
Total Pages : 534 pages
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Download or read book Plutarch's Essays and Miscellanies: Comprising All His Works Collected Under the Title of Morals: 2 written by Plutarch Plutarch and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Plutarch
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Total Pages : 562 pages
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Download or read book Plutarch̓s Lives and Writings: Plutarch's Essays and miscellanies, comprising all his works collected under the title of 'Morals'; translated from the Greek by several hands, corr. and rev. by William W. Goodwin written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: