Moralia, Volume I: The Education of Children. How the Young Man Should Study Poetry. on Listening to Lectures. How to Tell a Flatterer fr [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: 0674992172
• ISBN13: 9780674992177
• Release Date: January 1927
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.6" x 6.7"