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Essays
  • Published: 26 January 2006
  • ISBN: 9780140445640
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $37.99

Essays

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This lively translation by Robin Waterfield re-creates the readable and elegant syle of the original.

One of the greatest essayists of the Graeco-Roman world, Plutarch (c. AD 46 -120) used an encyclopedic knowledge of the Roman Empire to produce a compelling and individual voice. In this superb selection from his writings, he offers personal insights into moral subjects that include the virtue of listening, the danger of flattery and the avoidance of anger, alongside more speculative essays on themes as diverse as God's slowness to punish man, the use of reason by supposedly 'irrational' animals and the death of his own daughter. Brilliantly informed, these essays offer a treasure-trove of ancient wisdom, myth and philosophy, and a powerful insight into a deeply intelligent man.
  • Published: 26 January 2006
  • ISBN: 9780140445640
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $37.99
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Plutarch

Plutarch (AD 45?- AD 120) was an Greek essayist, biographer, philosopher, historian, and moralist. In his lifetime, he traveled in Egypt and Italy, visited Rome and Athens, and became a priest of the temple of Delphi. Plutarch is most famous writing for THE PARALLEL LIVES, comprised of 46 surviving biographies arranged in pairs (one Greek life with one comparable Roman life) and four single biographies.
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