Moralia (III)
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- inglés
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- Obra completa
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- Atribuida (autoría debatida)
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- Sin ruido de escaneo detectado (medición automática sobre todo el texto, no revisada a mano)
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- ~280.000 palabras · 1348 pasajes
Cita esta obra
- APAPlutarco. (n.d.). Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3 Essays and Miscellanies [Moralia (III)]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/plutarch/complete-works-of-plutarch-volume-3-essays-and-miscellanies
- MLAPlutarco. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3 Essays and Miscellanies [Moralia (III)]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/works/plutarch/complete-works-of-plutarch-volume-3-essays-and-miscellanies.
- ChicagoPlutarco. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3 Essays and Miscellanies [Moralia (III)]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/plutarch/complete-works-of-plutarch-volume-3-essays-and-miscellanies.
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De qué trata
Los ensayos de Plutarco: no las Vidas sino lo que se conoce como Moralia, decenas de textos breves sobre la ira, la charlatanería, la superstición, la educación de los hijos, el oráculo de Delfos y la cara que se ve en la luna.
Contexto e historia
Conviene no confundir las dos cosas: en el catálogo están las Vidas paralelas y está esto, y es la mitad menos leída de Plutarco pese a ser la más variada. Aquí se ve que era sacerdote en Delfos y que le interesaba todo; también es de aquí que salen muchos de sus fragmentos citados sobre la amistad y la calma. Algunos de los tratados atribuidos son de autenticidad discutida, cosa corriente en una colección tan grande.
Contexto editorial, no una fuente citable: a diferencia de los pasajes de la obra, estos datos no se pueden comprobar contra el corpus.
fitting. I am sure, Heraclides went away disgusted with us, for handling Epicurus and Aletrodorus more roughly than they deserved. Yet you may remember, replied Theon, how you told them that Colotes himself, compared with the rhetoric of those two gentlemen, would appear the complaisantest man alive; for when they have raked together the lewdest terms of ignominy the tongue of man ever used, as buffooneries, trollings, arrogancies, whorings, assassinations, whining counterfeits, black-guards, and blockheads, they faintly throw them in the faces of Aristotle, Socrates, Pythagoras, Protagoras, Theophrastus, Heraclides, Hipparchus, and which not, even of the best and most celebrated authorities. So that, should they pass for very knowing men upon all other accounts, yet their very calumnies and reviling language would bespeak them at the greatest distance from philosophy imaginable. For emulation can never enter that godlike consort, nor such fretfulness as wants resolution to conceal its own resentments. Aristodemus then subjoined: Heraclides, you know, is a great philologist; and that may be the reason why he made Epicurus those amends for the poetic din (so, that party style poetry) and for the fooleries of Homer; or else, it may be, it was because Metrodorus had libelled that poet in so many books. But let us let these gentlemen pass at present, Zeuxippus, and rather return to what was charged upon the philosophers in the beginning of our discourse, that it is impossible to live according to their tenets. And I see not why we two may not despatch this affair betwixt us, with the good assistance of Theon; for I find this gentleman (meaning me) is already tired. Then Theon said to him, Our fellows have that garland from us won; therefore, if you please, Let's fix another goal, and at that run.…