{"product_id":"moralia-volume-i-plutarch-9780674997790","title":"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 Friend.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePlutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia, in central Greece. He is renowned for his forty-six \u003ci\u003eParallel Lives\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 works, some seventy in number and known collectively as \u003ci\u003eMoralia\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003eMoral Essays\u003c\/i\u003e, are important sources for classical philosophy, ethics, and religion. Whether advising about marriage and education, discussing prophecy, divine providence, and life after death, setting forth rules for politicians, or commenting on personal virtues and vices, the \u003ci\u003eMoralia\u003c\/i\u003e reveal not only Plutarch's own thinking but also the world in which he lived. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Loeb Classical Library edition of the \u003ci\u003eMoralia\u003c\/i\u003e is in sixteen volumes, volume XIII having two parts. Volume XVI comprises an analytical index that provides access to the great riches to be found within the collection. In the present volume are five essays: \u003ci\u003eThe Education of Children\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHow the Young Man Should Study Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOn Listening to Lectures\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHow to Tell a Flatterer from a Friend\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHow a Man May Become Aware of His Progress in Virtue\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis edition, which replaces the original by Frank Cole Babbitt (1927), offers text, translation, and annotation that are fully current with modern scholarship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Plutarch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674997794\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674997790\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/16\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 544\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Plutarch","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47520817512703,"sku":"9780674997790","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_659e7c03-861b-4f7a-b501-ce5a5779ad10.jpg?v=1762887221","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/moralia-volume-i-plutarch-9780674997790","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}