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The Moralia include On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander the Great, an important adjunct to Plutarch's Life of the great general; On the Worship of Isis and Osiris, a crucial source of information on Egyptian religious rites; [2] and On the Malice of Herodotus (which may, like the orations on Alexander's accomplishments, have been a rhetorical exercise), [3] in which Plutarch criticizes ...
Mathilde Cambron-Goulet [c] wrote that Xenophontos emphasizes the prevalence of moral education in both the "Lives" and "Moralia," encouraging a "holistic reading" of Plutarch's works. [5] Geert Roskam [d] commended the monograph for providing a new model in Plutarchan studies through its analytical character and methodological precision. [6]
Plutarch's writings had an enormous influence on English and French literature. Montaigne's Essays draw extensively on Plutarch's Moralia and are consciously modelled on the Greek's easygoing and discursive inquiries into science, manners, customs and beliefs. Essays contains more than 400 references to Plutarch and his works. [38]
Engraving facing the title page of an 18th-century edition of Plutarch's Lives. The Parallel Lives (Ancient Greek: Βίοι Παράλληλοι, Bíoi Parállēloi; Latin: Vītae Parallēlae) is a series of 48 biographies of famous men written in Greek by the Greco-Roman philosopher, historian, and Apollonian priest Plutarch, probably at the beginning of the second century.
Bust of Plutarch at Chaeronea. On the Malice of Herodotus or On the Malignity of Herodotus (Ancient Greek: Περὶ τῆς Ἡροδότου κακοηθείας) is an essay by Plutarch criticizing the historian Herodotus for all manner of prejudice and misrepresentation in the latter's Histories.
The principal work for which Bernardakis was known in his philological career was a seven-volume edition (1888–96 Bibliotheca Teubneriana editio minor) of Plutarch's Moralia (), based on a previously-unknown codex (Codex Athous Gr. 268) which he had found in a monastic library on Mount Athos.
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Plutarch, Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London.
Plutarch, Moralia with an English Translation by Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website