Plutarco nació en Queronea y vivió entre los siglos I y II d. C, cuando Beocia era una tranquila y oscura provincia del Imperio romano. Estudió filosofía en Atenas, la mejor universidad del mundo antiguo, y con los años...
La presente obra de Plutarco expone la vida del político ateniense Arístides (s.V a.C) y del censor romano M. Porcio Catón (ss. III-II a.C), ahondado en los pequeños detalles que configuran el carácter de uno y otro pers...
Si bien la finalidad que mueve a Plutarco a la composición de sus Vidas paralelas es fundamentalmente ilustrar sus ideales éticos, el rigor de su método, la claridad de su exposición y el conocimiento de fuentes hoy perdidas...
Tras la edición del texto de Plutarco el editor realiza una extendida exégesis de cada uno de sus capítulos, suministrando una información imprescindible (histórica, social y filológica) para la comprensión...
El volumen recoge las obras más importantes del autor sobre el pensamiento mágico, el erotismo y la música antiguas: Sobre Isis y Osiris, Diálogos píticos, Sobre el amor, Sobre la música.
Plutarch (AD 46-after 119) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo. He is known primarily for his Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of illustrious Greeks and Romans, and Moralia, a collectio...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning proc...
Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of 48 biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings, probably written at the beginning...
The Complete Essays of Plutarch includes 133 chapters on nature, Plutarch's Symposiacs, as well as his collection of literary essays. Plutarch was a Platonist, but was open to the influence of the Peripatetics, and in some details even to Stoicism...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning proc...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning proc...
Plutarchâs "Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans", often simply referred to as "Plutarchâs Lives", is a series of biographies of notable ancient Greek and Roman figures most likely written at the...