Selected Essays of Plutarch, Vol. II.
This second volume of Selected Essays of Plutarch, translated with introductions by A. O. Prickard and published by the Clarendon Press in 1918, gathers a group of the philosophical dialogues from the Moralia. It contains On the Genius of Socrates, set in Thebes on the night of its liberation, the three Pythian dialogues on the E at Delphi, on why the Pythia no longer gives oracles in verse and on the cessation of oracles, the dialogue on the delays of divine punishment, a fragment on the soul, the treatise On Superstition and the dialogue on the face in the moon. Prickard adds notes on Plutarch's myths and cosmology. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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