Between Heathenism and Christianity - College of Stoic Philosophers

Plutarch and the Greece of His Age
tion the benefit of the wisdom that has come to him
in a life of study and observation. But, as is usually
the case with the aged, his advice has become com
monplace and the rising generation passes him by
almost unheeded. Few have now any confidence in
his teachings, while many of his former disciples
have deserted him. It is his sad fate, to see himself
jostled at first and finally thrust aside by the passing
stream of humanity.
The principal works used in the study
of Plutarch
here placed before the reader are the following:
Plutarchi Chaeronensis Moralia. Edidit Daniel Wyttenbach.
8 voll. Oxonii, 1795-1821.
R. Volkmann. Leben und Si-hriften des Plutarch von Chaeronea.
Berlin, 1869.
O. Oreard. De la Morale de Plutarqne. Cinquieme edition. Paris.
1892.
Plutarch s Werke iibersetzt von Klaiber, Bahr, v. A. Stuttgart,
1837-57.
Plutarchi Chaeronensis Moralia, Rccognovit Grefjoriv.s N. Bernardakis.
Lipsiae, 1888-96. 7 voll.
The last named contains a revised text only;
from it my translation of the De Sera was made.
The German translation of Bahr, the well-known
Heidelberg professor,
in the collection above cited,
follows the original very closely and has been of
much service to me by its interpretation of obscure
passages.
A complete catalogue of Plutarch s Moralia is given
in the appendix. The list is borrowed from the
edition of Bernardakis and the question
ticity is not taken into account.
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