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Ancient wisdom for modern living: ethics, education, and self-improvement.
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the education of children. how the young man should study poetry. on listening to lectures. how to tell a flatterer from a friend. how a man may become aware of his progress in virtue
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Summary
Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.
Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia, in central Greece. He is renowned for his forty-six Parallel Lives, 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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780674997790 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0674997794 |
| Author: | Plutarch, Professor of Classics William H. Race |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 544 |
| Release Date: | 6 July 2026 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Series: | Loeb Classical Library |
About The Author
Plutarch
William H. Race is Paddison Professor of Classics, Emeritus, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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