Moralia, Volume I – The Education of Children. How the Young Man Should Study Poetry. On Listening to Lectures. How to Tell a Flatterer from a Frien

Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides. Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45–120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia, in central Greece. He is renowned for his forty-six Parallel Lives, biographies planned to be ethical examples in pairs (in each pair, one Greek figure and one comparable Roman), though the last four lives are single. But he was also a teacher of philosophy in Rome, a priest at Delphi, and an engaging essayist with an urbane and judicious style whose many other extant... Zobrazit více