Plutarch: Essays | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780140445640 | Essays | Plutarch | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | 1993

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Beschreibung

Selections from one of the greatest essayists of the Graeco-Roman world

Plutarch 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.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Über den Autor

Plutarch (c. AD 45-120), the Greek philosopher, lived at the height of the Roman Empire and is author of one of the largest and collections of writings to have survived from Classical antiquity. His work is traditionally divided into two: the Moralia, which include a vast range of philosophical, scientific, moral and rhetorical works, and the Lives or biographies. Almost fifty such biographies survive, most from his collection of Parallel Lives, in which biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen are arranged in pairs.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction

ON LISTENING
Introduction
Essay

HOW TO DISTINGUISH A FLATTERER FROM A FRIEND
Introduction
Essay

ON BEING AWARE OF MORAL PROGRESS
Introduction
Essay

WHETHER MILITARY OR INTELLECTUAL EXPLOITS HAVE BROUGHT ATHENS MORE FAME
Introduction
Essay

ON THE AVOIDANCE OF ANGER
Introduction
Essay

ON CONTENTMENT
Introduction
Essay

ON GOD'S SLOWNESS TO PUNISH
Introduction
Essay

ON SOCRATES' PERSONAL DEITY
Introduction
Essay

IN CONSOLATION TO HIS WIFE
Introduction
Essay

ON THE USE OF REASON BY 'IRRATIONAL' ANIMALS
Introduction
Essay

Bibliography
Textual Appendix
Descriptive Index of Proper Names

Details

Empfohlen (von):	18
Erscheinungsjahr:	1993
Genre:	Gattungen & Methoden
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780140445640
ISBN-10:	0140445641
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Plutarch
Redaktion:	Kidd, Ian
Übersetzung:	Waterfield, Robin
Hersteller:	Penguin Publishing Group
Maße:	197 x 130 x 21 mm
Von/Mit:	Plutarch
Erscheinungsdatum:	06.04.1993
Gewicht:	0,299 kg

Artikel-ID: 121015391