Plutarch, in Moralia, presents a discussion on why the letter alpha stands first in the alphabet.

* a passage in Plutarch Moralia ( 162b ).

: originally from Plutarch, Moralia, c. 95 AD, regarding the death of Euripides

Cicero calls Herodotus the " father of history ;" yet the Greek writer Plutarch, in his Moralia ( Ethics ) denigrated Herodotus, as the " father of lies ".

In volume 8 of the Moralia, in the books entitled Table-talk, Plutarch discussed a series of arguments based on questions posed in a symposium.

* Plutarch, Moralia.

* Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum (" On the Decline of Oracles ") and De Pythiae Oraculis (" On the Oracles of the Pythia "), in Moralia, vol.

Plutarch, in Moralia ( 2nd century ), tells of the bravery of the women of Argos, in the 5th century BC, who repulsed the attacks of kings of Sparta.

About this time two requests were made to him for an edition of the Moralia of Plutarch, for which a recension of the tract De sera numinis vindicta had marked him out in the eyes of scholars.

# Plutarch – Parallel Lives ; Moralia

He translated seven books of Diodorus Siculus ( 1554 ), the Daphnis et Chloë of Longus ( 1559 ) and the Opera Moralia of Plutarch ( 1572 ).

# Plutarch – Parallel Lives ; Moralia

3 ; pages 259-260 ) have noted that Plutarch ( in the Moralia, V ) reported that Typhon / Seth in Egyptian and Greek myth was identified as the shadow of the Earth which covers the Moon during lunar eclipses.

* Sayings of Iphicrates, from the Moralia of Plutarch

Yet Alexander the Great was very interested in Egypt ; Plutarch himself wrote a work On Isis and Osiris, part of the Moralia, which is major source on Egypt.

Gaius Stern has identified a relevant, little known passage, Plutarch Moralia 505C, which adds a story not told in Tacitus.

LacusCurtius has the Loeb translation by Bernadotte Perrin ( published 1914 ‑ 1926 ) of part of the Moralia and all the Lives ; see http :// penelope. uchicago. edu / Thayer / E / Roman / Texts / Plutarch / home. html

* Cicero, De seneclute, vii. 22 ; Plutarch, Moralia, 785 B ;

* According to Plutarch, Moralia Macedonians use ' b ' instead of ' ph ', while Delphians use ' b ' in the place of ' p '.

The Moralia ( ancient Greek — loosely translatable as Matters relating to customs and mores ) of the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea is an eclectic collection of 78 essays and transcribed speeches.

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.

In Moralia, Plutarch agrees with Plato that the soul is more divine than the body while nous is more divine than the soul.

* Plutarch, Moralia, " On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander ", ii.