Moralia, Volume VIII: Table-Talk, Books 1-6 [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: 0674994663
• ISBN13: 9780674994669
• Release Date: January 1969
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.5" x 6.7"