The Morals (Moralia), Audiobook Part 1 Book 2 - Lucius Mestrius PLUTARCHUS
The
Morals (Moralia), Audiobook Part 1
Book 2 -
Lucius Mestrius PLUTARCHUS
Chapter
Time
The Banquet of the
Seven Wise Men, part 1 00:00:00
The Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, part 2 00:33:53
The Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, part 3 01:05:03
How a
Young Man Ought to
Hear Poems, part 1 01:25:50
How a Young Man Ought to Hear Poems, part 2 01:57:02
How a Young Man Ought to Hear Poems, part 3 02:21:39
How a Young Man Ought to Hear Poems, part 4 02:46:13
Of
Envy and
Hatred 03:08:05
How to Know a Flatterer From a
Friend, part 1 03:18:31
How to Know a Flatterer From a Friend, part 2 03:44:06
How to Know a Flatterer From a Friend, part 3 04:11:33
How to Know a Flatterer From a Friend, part 4 04:45:21
That It Is Not Possible to
Live Pleasurably According to the
Doctrine of
Epicurus, part 1 05:18:06
That It Is Not Possible to Live Pleasurably According to the Doctrine of Epicurus, part 2 05:49:43
That It Is Not Possible to Live Pleasurably According to the Doctrine of Epicurus, part 3 06:23:56
Roman Questions, part 1 06:57:31
Roman Questions, part 2 07:29:55
Roman Questions, part 3 08:03:25
Roman Questions, part 4 08:35:44
The Morals (Moralia), Book 2
Lucius Mestrius PLUTARCHUS (c. 46 - c.
120)
The Moralia (loosely translatable as "
Matters relating to customs") of the
1st-century Greek scholar
Plutarch of Chaeronea is an eclectic collection of 78 essays and transcribed speeches. They give an insight into
Roman and
Greek life, but often are also fascinating timeless observations in their own right. Many generations of
Europeans have read or imitated them, including
Montaigne and the
Renaissance Humanists and
Enlightenment philosophers. The Moralia include "On the
Fortune or the
Virtue of
Alexander the Great" — an important adjunct to his
Life of the great general — "On the
Worship of
Isis and Osiris" (a crucial source of information on
Egyptian religious rites), and "
On the Malice of Herodotus" (which may, like the orations on
Alexander's accomplishments, have been a rhetorical exercise), in which
Plutarch criticizes what he sees as systematic bias in the
Father of
History's work; along with more philosophical treatises, such as "On the Decline of the
Oracles", "On the
Delays of the
Divine Vengeance", "On
Peace of Mind" and lighter fare, such as "
Odysseus and Gryllus", a humorous dialog between
Homer's Odysseus and one of
Circe's enchanted pigs. The Moralia were composed first, while writing the Lives occupied much of the last two decades of
Plutarch's own life. Some editions of the Moralia include several works now known to be pseudepigrapha: among these are the "Lives of the
Ten Orators" (biographies of the Ten Orators of ancient
Athens, based on
Caecilius of Calacte), "The Doctrines of the Philosophers", and "On
Music". One "pseudo-Plutarch" is held responsible for all of these works, though their authorship is of course unknown. Though the thoughts and opinions recorded are not Plutarch's and come from a slightly later era, they are all classical in origin and have value to the historian. The book is also famously the first reference to the problem of the chicken and the egg. (Summary adapted from the
Wikipedia)
Genre(s):
Classics (
Antiquity), *Non-fiction, Self-Help
Language:
English