Moralia, Volume XIV: That Epicurus Actually Makes a Pleasant Life Impossible. Reply to Colotes in Defence of the Other Philosophers. Is "Li [Greek, Ancient (To 1453)]

by Frank Cole Babbitt and Plutarch

Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.

Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given consular rank by the emperor Trajan and a procuratorship in Greece by Hadrian. He was married and the father of one daughter and four sons. He appears as a man of kindly character and independent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Greek, Ancient (To 1453)
• ISBN: 0674994728
• ISBN13: 9780674994720
• Release Date: January 1967
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.6" x 6.4"