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Title

Moralia / Plutarch ; With An English Translation by Frank Cole Babbitt, W.C. Helmbold, Phillip H. De Lacy, Benedict Einarson, Paula A. Clement, Herbert B. Hoffleit, Lionel Person, F.H. Sandbach, Harold North Flower, Edwin L. Minar Jr., Harold Cherniss and Edwards N. O'Neil.

Author

Plutarch

Publication

• Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1927-2006.
• United States of America : The Maple-Vail Book Manufacturing Group ; Ann Arbor, Michigan : Edwards Brothers, [2006]
• ©1959-2004.

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Additional Authors

• Babbitt, Frank Cole
• Cherniss, Harold F. (Harold Fredrik), 1904-1987
• Clement, Paul A.
• De Lacy, Phillip, 1913-2006
• Einarson, Benedict, 1906-1978
• Fowler, Harold North, 1859-1955
• Helmbold, W. C. (William Clark), 1908-1969
• Hoffleit, Herbert B. (Herbert Benno), 1905-1981
• Minar, Edwin L., Jr. (Edwin Leroy), 1915-1985
• Pearson, Lionel
• Sandbach, F. H.
• O'Neil, Edward N.

Description

16 volumes, ([468] pages ; [508] pages ; [600] pages ; [523] pages ; [515] pages ; [528] pages ; [618] pages ; [528] pages ; [454] pages ; 491 pages ; [242] pages ; [590] pages ; 365 pages (part 1) ; 885 pages (part 2) ; [468] pages ; [418] pages ; 532 pages); 17 cm

Series Statement

Loeb classical library ; 197, 222, 245, 305-306, 321, 337, 405-406, 424-429, 470, 499

Uniform Title

Loeb classical library ; no. 197, 222, 245, 305-306, 321, 337, 405-406, 424-429, 470, 499.

Alternative Title

Moralia. XVI : Index.

Subjects

• Ethics, Ancient
• Indexes
• Plutarch > Moralia > Indexes
• Ethics, Ancient > Indexes
• Ethics > Early works to 1800
• Early works
• Moralia (Plutarch)

Genre/Form

• Early works.
• Indexes.

Note

• Volume 1-5 translated by Frank Cole Babbitt ; Volume 6 translated by W. C. Helmbold ; Volume 7 translated by Phillip H. De Lacy and Benedict Einarson ; Volume 8 translated by Paula A. Clement and Herbert B. Hoffleit ; Volume 9 translated by Edwin L. Minar Jr., F.H. Sandbach and W. C. Helmbold Volume 10 translated by Harold North Flower ; Volume 11 translated by Lionel Person and F.H. Sandbach ; Volume 12 translated by Harold Cherniss and W.C. Helmbold ; Volume 13 (part 1-2) translated by Harold Cherniss ; Volume 14 translated by Benedict Einarson and Phillip H. De Lacy ; Volume 15 translated by F.H. Sandbach ;
• Volume 15 first published 1969, reprinted 2006.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes (v. 16 is a comprehensive index to the set, compiled by Edward N. O'Neil).

Language (note)

• Greek and English on opposite pages.

Contents

• V. 1. The education of children ; How the young man should study poetry ; On listening to lectures ; How to tell a flatterer from a friend ; How a man may become aware of his progress in virtue / with an English translation by Frank Cole Babbitt. 1927 -- v. 2. How to profit by one's enemies ; On having many friends ; Chance ; Virtue and vice ; A letter of condolence to Apollonius ; Advice about keeping well ; Advice to bride and groom ; The dinner of the seven wise men ; Superstition / with an English translation by Frank Cole Babbitt. 1928 -- v. 3. Sayings of kings and commanders ; Sayings of Romans ; Sayings of Spartans ; The ancient custom of the Spartans ; Sayings of Spartan women ; Bravery of women / with an English translation by Frank Cole Babbitt. 1931 -- v. 4. The Roman questions ; The Greek questions ; Greek and Roman parallel stories ; On the fortune of the Romans ; On the fortune of Alexander ; Were the Athenians more famous in war or in wisdom? / with an English translation by Frank Cole Babbitt. 1936 -- v. 5. Isis and Osiris ; The E at Delphi ; The oracles at Delphi no longer given in verse ; The obsolescence of oracles / with an English translation by Frank Cole Babbitt. 1936 -- v. 6. Can virtue be taught? ; On moral virtue ; On the control of anger ; On tranquillity of mind ; On brotherly love ; On affection for offspring ; Whether vice be sufficient to cause unhappiness ; Whether the affections of the soul are worse than those of the body ; Concerning talkativeness ; On being a busybody / with an English translation by W.C. Helmbold. 1939
• V. 7. On the love of wealth ; On compliancy ; On envy and hate ; On praising oneself inoffensively ; On the delays of the divine vengeance ; On fate ; On the sign of Socrates ; On exile ; Consolation to his wife / with an English translation by Phillip de Lacy and Benedict Einarson. 1959 -- v. 8. Table-talk : Books I-III ; Table-talk : Books IV-VI / with an English translation by Paul A. Clement and Herbert B. Hoffleit. 1969 -- v. 9. Table-talk : Book VII ; Table-talk : Book VIII ; Table-talk : Book IX ; The dialogue on love / with an English translation by Edwin L. Minar, Jr., F.H. Sandbach, W.C. Helmbold. 1961 -- v. 10. Love stories ; That a philosopher ought to converse especially with men in power ; To an uneducated ruler ; Whether an old man should engage in public affairs ; Precepts of statecraft ; On monarchy, democracy, and oligarchy ; That we ought not to borrow ; Lives of the ten orators ; Summary of a comparison between Aristophanes and Menander / with an English translation by Harold North Fowler. 1936 -- v. 11. On the malice of Herodotus ; Causes of natural phenomena / with an English translation by Lionel Pearson and F.H. Sandbach -- v. 12. Concerning the face which appears in the orb of the moon ; On the principle of cold ; Whether fire or water is more useful ; Whether land or sea animals are cleverer ; Beasts are rational ; On the eating of flesh / wiht an English translation by Harold Cherniss and William C. Helmbold. 1957
• V. 13, pt. 1. Platonic questions ; On the generation of the soul in the Timaeus ; Epitome of the treatise "On the generation of the soul in the Timaeus / with an English translation by Harold Cherniss. 1976 -- v. 13, pt. 2. On stoic self-contradictions ; Conspectus of the essay, "The stoics talk more paradoxically than the poets" ; Against the stoics on common conceptions / with an English translation by Herold Cherniss. 1976 -- v. 14. That Epicurus actually makes a pleasant life impossible ; Reply to Colotes in defence of the other philosophers ; Is "life unknown" a wise precept? ; On music / with an English translation by Benedict Einarson and Phillip H. De Lacy. 1967 -- v. 15. Works by Plutarch : ancient lives ; Tyrwhitt's fragments ; Fragments from lost lives ; Fragments from other named works ; Other fragments / with an English translation by F.H. Sandbach. 1969 -- v. 16. Index / compiled by Edward N. O'Neil. 2004.

Call Number

PA3611

ISBN

• 9780674992177
• 0674992172
• 9780674992450
• 0674992458
• 9780674992702
• 0674992709
• 9780674993365
• 0674993365
• 9780674993372
• 0674993373
• 9780674993716
• 0674993713
• 9780674994461
• 0674994469
• 9780674994669
• 0674994663
• 9780674994676
• 0674994671
• 9780674993549
• 0674993543
• 9780674994690
• 0674994698
• 9780674994478
• 0674994477
• 9780674994706
• 0674994701
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• 0674995171
• 9780674994720
• 0674994728
• 9780674994737
• 0674994736
• 9780674996113
• 0674996119

OCLC

908337654

Author

Plutarch, author.

Title

Moralia / Plutarch ; With An English Translation by Frank Cole Babbitt, W.C. Helmbold, Phillip H. De Lacy, Benedict Einarson, Paula A. Clement, Herbert B. Hoffleit, Lionel Person, F.H. Sandbach, Harold North Flower, Edwin L. Minar Jr., Harold Cherniss and Edwards N. O'Neil.

Publisher

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1927-2006.

Manufacturer

United States of America : The Maple-Vail Book Manufacturing Group ; Ann Arbor, Michigan : Edwards Brothers, [2006]

Copyright Date

©1959-2004.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Loeb classical library ; 197, 222, 245, 305-306, 321, 337, 405-406, 424-429, 470, 499

Loeb classical library ; no. 197, 222, 245, 305-306, 321, 337, 405-406, 424-429, 470, 499.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes (v. 16 is a comprehensive index to the set, compiled by Edward N. O'Neil).

Language

Greek and English on opposite pages.

Added Author

Plutarch. Moralia. English (Loeb classical library)

Plutarch. Moralia. Greek (Loeb classical library)

Babbitt, Frank Cole, editor, translator.

Cherniss, Harold F. (Harold Fredrik), 1904-1987, editor, translator.

Clement, Paul A., editor, translator.

De Lacy, Phillip, 1913-2006, editor, translator.

Einarson, Benedict, 1906-1978, editor, translator.

Fowler, Harold North, 1859-1955, editor, translator.

Helmbold, W. C. (William Clark), 1908-1969, editor, translator.

Hoffleit, Herbert B. (Herbert Benno), 1905-1981, editor, translator.

Minar, Edwin L., Jr. (Edwin Leroy), 1915-1985, editor, translator.

Pearson, Lionel, editor, translator.

Sandbach, F. H., editor, translator.

O'Neil, Edward N.

Spine Title

Moralia. XVI : Index.

Research Call Number

*R-RMRR PA3611 .P58