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.

* Plutarch, Moralia

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 criticised Herodotus in his essay " On The Malignity of Herodotus ", describing Herodotus as " Philobarbaros " ( barbarian-lover ), for not being pro-Greek enough, which suggests that Herodotus might actually have done a reasonable job of being even-handed.

* Plutarch Parallel Lives ( Aristides, Themistocles, Theseus ), On the Malice of Herodotus

Some " calumnious fictions " were written about Herodotus in a work titled On the Malice of Herodotus, by Plutarch, a Theban by birth, ( or it might have been a Pseudo-Plutarch, in this case " a great collector of slanders "), including the allegation that the historian was prejudiced against Thebes because the authorities there had denied him permission to set up a school.

The rejection of the heliocentric view was apparently quite strong, as the following passage from Plutarch suggests ( On the Apparent Face in the Orb of the Moon ):

A nearly identical story is told by Plutarch, in his On Isis and Osiris, of the goddess Isis burning away the mortality of Prince Maneros of Byblos, son of Queen Astarte, and being likewise interrupted before completing the process.

On these two sources depend other ancient authorities, such as Ovid, Servius, Aulus Gellius, Macrobius, patristic texts, Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Plutarch.

Plutarch criticised Herodotus in his essay " On The Malignity of Herodotus ", describing Herodotus as " Philobarbaros " ( barbarian-lover ), for not being pro-Greek enough, which suggests that Herodotus might actually have done a reasonable job of being even-handed.

Rejection of the heliocentric view was common, as the following passage from Plutarch suggests ( On the Apparent Face in the Orb of the Moon ):

* On the laws of Solon (), a work mentioned by Plutarch

A lost epic, Titanomachia, attributed to the blind Thracian bard Thamyris, himself a legendary figure, was mentioned in passing in an essay On Music that was once attributed to Plutarch.

A lost epic attributed to Thamyris, Titanomachy, was mentioned in passing in the essay " On Music " that was once believed to be authored by Plutarch.

Plutarch in his work De mulierum virtutibus (" On the Virtues of Women ") describes how the tyrant of Cyrene, Nicocrates, was deposed by his wife Aretaphila of Cyrene around the year 50 BC

See also Van den Berg, Proclus ' Commentary, p. 49, with reference to Plutarch, On the E at Delphi .</ ref > Neoplatonists sometimes interpreted the Eleusinian Mysteries as a fabula of celestial phenomena:

The artistic unity of his work suffered severely from the frequent and lengthy digressions, of which the most important was On the Athenian Demagogues in the 10th book of the Philippica, containing a bitter attack on many of the chief Athenian statesmen, and generally recognized as having been freely used by Plutarch in several of the Lives.

* The Greek historian / biographer Plutarch of Chaeronea wrote the On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander the Great and " Life of Alexander " in his " Parallel Lives " series, paired with " Life of Julius Caesar "

The first known written account of a run from Marathon to Athens occurs in the works of the Greek writer Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ), in his essay On the Glory of Athens.

Plutarch tells of a similar story, reporting that it comes from a work entitled On Good Birth, but he expresses doubt as to whether it was written by Aristotle.

Lucian, writing in his book On Slips of the Tongue describes an occasion when Hephaestion's conversation one morning implied that he had been in Alexander's tent all night, and Plutarch describes the intimacy between them when he tells how Hephaestion was in the habit of reading Alexander's letters with him, and of a time when he showed that the contents of a letter were to be kept secret by touching his ring to Hephaestion's lips.

Plutarch criticised Herodotus in his essay " On The Malignity of Herodotus ", describing Herodotus as " Philobarbaros " ( barbarian-lover ), for not being pro-Greek enough, which suggests that Herodotus might actually have done a reasonable job of being even-handed.

On the way, the rope ( again, according to Plutarch ) broke of its own accord.

Plutarch criticised Herodotus in his essay " On The Malignity of Herodotus ", describing Herodotus as " Philobarbaros " ( barbarian-lover ) and for not being pro-Greek enough, which suggests that Herodotus might actually have done a reasonable job of being even-handed.

On hearing of his death in Utica, Plutarch wrote that Caesar commented: " Cato, I grudge you your death, as you would have grudged me the preservation of your life.

Plutarch criticised Herodotus in his essay " On The Malignity of Herodotus ", describing Herodotus as " Philobarbaros " ( barbarian-lover ) for not being pro-Greek enough, which suggests that Herodotus might actually have done a reasonable job of being even-handed.