Selected Essays of Plutarch, Vol. II
by Plutarch
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About this eBook
- Author
- Plutarch, 46-120?
- Title
- Selected Essays of Plutarch, Vol. II.
- Credits
- Produced by Turgut Dincer, David King, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PA: Language and Literatures: Classical Languages and Literature
- Subject
- Ethics -- Early works to 1800
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 62858
- Release Date
- August 5, 2020
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Selected Essays of Plutarch
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.ON THE GENIUS OF SOCRATES — INTRODUCTION — A DIALOGUE HELD AT ATHENS — SPEAKERS
- 5.THREE PYTHIAN DIALOGUES — INTRODUCTION
- 6.I ON THE ‘E’ AT DELPHI — ON THE ‘E’ AT DELPHI
- 7.II WHY THE PYTHIA DOES NOT NOW GIVE ORACLES IN VERSE — A. Introductory — B. Philinus narrates a Conversation between — WHY THE PYTHIA DOES NOT NOW GIVE ORACLES IN VERSE
- 8.III ON THE CESSATION OF THE ORACLES — ON THE CESSATION OF THE ORACLES
- 9.ON THE INSTANCES OF DELAY IN DIVINE PUNISHMENT — INTRODUCTION — ON THE INSTANCES OF DELAY IN DIVINE PUNISHMENT
- 10.FROM THE DIALOGUE ‘ON THE SOUL’ A FRAGMENT
- 11.ON SUPERSTITION — INTRODUCTION — ON SUPERSTITION — APPENDIX A SHORT DISCOURSE OF SUPERSTITION — By JOHN SMITH — THE CONTENTS OF THE ENSUING DISCOURSE — Of Superstition — ON THE FACE WHICH APPEARS ON THE ORB OF THE MOON A DIALOGUE — INTRODUCTION — PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE — ANALYSIS — OF THE FACE WHICH APPEARS ON THE ORB OF THE MOON
- 12.NOTES — Supplemental Notes 1918
- 13.NOTE ON THE MYTHS IN PLUTARCH
- 14.NOTE ON THE PLURALITY OF WORLDS AND THE FIVE REGULAR SOLIDS
- 15.INDEX OF PERSONS AND PLACES MENTIONED BY PLUTARCH IN THESE DIALOGUES
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