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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 ...
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]
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]
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.
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.
The tone of the essay is so waspish that many scholars (Grote was one [4]) doubted that the text was the product of the famously mild-tempered philosopher.In the 19th century in particular On the Malice was dismissed as the work of a Pseudo-Plutarch, "full of the most futile accusations of every kind".
This was the first English translation of Plutarch's Moralia. Holland followed the Greek of Plutarch's original, and made use as well of a Latin translation and of the French translation of 1572 by Jacques Amyot.
Daniel Babut (12 February 1929 – 13 February 2009) was a French Hellenist, specialising in Greek philosophy, especially the Moralia of Plutarch. He was employed by the Lumière University Lyon 2 from 1963 to 1992. He was born in Lille.