Moralia, Volume XIV

That Epicurus Actually Makes a Pleasant Life Impossible. Reply to Colotes in Defence of the Other Philosophers. Is "Live Unknown" a Wise Precept? On Music

Plutarch

Translated by Benedict Einarson

Product Details

HARDCOVER

$28.00 • £19.95 • €25.00

ISBN 9780674994720

Publication Date: 01/01/1967

Loeb

480 pages

4-1/4 x 6-3/8 inches

Index

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Preface
Traditional Order of the Books of the Moralia
That Epicurus Actually Makes a Pleasant Life Impossible
- Introduction
- Text and Translation
Reply to Colotes in Defence of the Other Philosophers
- Introduction
- Text and Translation
Is “Live Unknown” a Wise Precept?
- Introduction
- Text and Translation
On Music
- Introduction
- Text and Translation
Index

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