Race - Moralia, Volume I (June 2026)

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Race - Moralia, Volume I (June 2026)

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Another one without a publisher page at the moment. I will update when I find one

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Moralia-Educat ... TdWOq1Dr2o

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 judicious style whose many other extant works, some seventy in number and known collectively as Moralia or Moral Essays, are important sources for classical philosophy, ethics, and religion. Whether advising about marriage and education, discussing prophecy, divine providence, and life after death, setting forth rules for politicians, or commenting on personal virtues and vices, the Moralia reveal not only Plutarch's own thinking but also the world in which he lived.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of the Moralia is in sixteen volumes, volume XIII having two parts. Volume XVI comprises an analytical index that provides access to the great riches to be found within the collection. In the present volume are five essays: The Education of Children, How the Young Man Should Study Poetry, On Listening to Lectures, How to Tell a Flatterer from a Friend, and How a Man May Become Aware of His Progress in Virtue.
This edition, which replaces the original by Frank Cole Babbitt (1927), offers text, translation, and annotation that are fully current with modern scholarship.
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Re: Race - Moralia, Volume I (June 2026)

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Thanks for the heads up on the new edition.

Babbitt's 1927 edition can be seen at the Internet Archive.

I took my copy of the old printed edition from my shelves and saw that I had marked the passage: ‘ὦ ἄνθρωποι, ποῖ φέρεσθε, οἵτινες χρημάτων μὲν κτήσεως πέρι πᾶσαν, ποιεῖσθε σπουδήν, τῶν δ᾽ υἱέων, οἷς ταῦτα καταλείψετε, μικρὰ φροντίζετε ;’ (4e) It put me in mind of Luke 1:17a καὶ αὐτὸς προελεύσεται ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ ἐν πνεύματι καὶ δυνάμει Ἠλίου, ἐπιστρέψαι καρδίας πατέρων ἐπὶ τέκνα ...

I'm reading through Plutarch's Life of Solon at the moment. I find it interesting is to see how many NT hapax legomena I can find in his Greek; there are quite a few. I'm only just up to chapter 5 in Solon and I've found more than ten (nearly 20 if repeat uses of the same hapax are counted). It gives a slightly different perspective on NT vocabulary (which is not to say that the same is not true of reading other extra-NT Greek).

Alex Hopkins
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