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Essays

by Plutarch Book 4 in the Penguin Classics: Ancient World series.

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Plutarch’s essays, often collected as the Moralia, range across ethics, religion, politics, education, biography, marriage, superstition and literary criticism. The volume shows a Greek intellectual writing under Roman rule while preserving older philosophical and civic traditions for readers interested in moral conduct and public life.

Historical Periods

Imperial Rome27 BCE–476 CE Classical Historiography500 BCE–250 CE Roman Biography and Moral Exempla100 BCE–150 CE

Genres

Classical Literature

Historical people

Plutarchc. 46–after 119 CE

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