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.

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

Adorno ’ s own recently published Minima Moralia was not only well received in the press, but also met with great admiration from Thomas Mann, who wrote to Adorno from America in 1952:

Several scholars have disagreed with this, taking the Magna Moralia to be an authentic work by Aristotle, notably Friedrich Schleiermacher, Hans von Arnim, and J. L. Ackrill.

A kind of post-philosophy working against the " untrue whole " of philosophy proper, Minima Moralia holds fast to the Judeo-Christian-Enlightenment vision of redemption, which it calls the only valid viewpoint with which to engage a deeply troubled world.

Saint Gregory's Commentary on Job, or Moralia, sive Expositio in Job, sometimes called Magna Moralia, but not to be confused with Aristotle's Great Ethics known by the same title, was written between 578 and 595, begun when Gregory was at the court of Tiberius II at Constantinople, but finished only after he had already been in Rome for several years.

The refined detail of Polykleitos ' models for casting executed in clay is revealed in a famous remark repeated in Plutarch's Moralia, that " the work is hardest when the clay is under the fingernail ".

His other surviving work is the Moralia, a collection of essays on ethical, religious, political, physical, and literary topics.

The Magna Moralia ( or " Great Ethics ") is a treatise on ethics traditionally attributed to Aristotle, though the consensus now is that it represents an epitome of his ethical thought by a later, if sympathetic, writer.

Saint Gregory's Commentary on Job is sometimes also referred to by the title Magna Moralia.

Minima Moralia: Reflections From Damaged Life () is a 1951 book by Theodor W. Adorno and a seminal text in Critical Theory.

British Library, Additional MS 31031 is an 8th century illuminated copy of Pope Gregory the Great's Moralia in Job, books I-V. The codex is missing the last folio and ends in the words " et singuli tota ".

The name " Magna Moralia " cannot be traced further back in time than the reign of Marcus Aurelius.

The Moralia were composed first, while writing the Lives occupied much of the last two decades of Plutarch's own life.

The Greek word occurs in Plutarch's ( 1st century AD ) essay on " Fraternal Love " in his Moralia ( 2. 490b ).

As a critic of both fascism and what he called the culture industry, his writings — such as Dialectic of Enlightenment ( 1947 ), Minima Moralia ( 1951 ) and Negative Dialectics ( 1966 )— strongly influenced the European New Left.

Impressed by Horkheimer's book of aphorisms, Dawn and Decline, Adorno began working on his own book of aphorisms, what would later become Minima Moralia.

In addition to the aphorisms which conclude Dialectic of Enlightenment, Adorno put together a collection of aphorisms in honor of Horkheimer ’ s fiftieth birthday that would later be published as Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life.

Contains complete texts of Enlightenment as Mass Deception, Supramundane Character of the Hegelian World Spirit and Minima Moralia.

Moralia Vol.

Other works that St-Calais gave to the cathedral library were copies of Augustine of Hippo's De Civitae Dei and Confessions ; Gregory the Great's Pastoral Care, Moralia, and Homilies ; and Ambrose's De Poenitentia.

After the conclusion of his edition of Plutarch's Moralia in 1805, the only important work he was able to publish was his well-known edition of Plato's Phaedo.

He also translated Plutarch's Moralia ( 1882 ) and the theosophical works of the Emperor Julian ( 1888 ), for Bohn's Classical Library.

Saint Gregory the Great ( 590-604 ), Moralia: " Now the holy Church universal proclaims that God cannot be truly worshipped saving within herself, asserting that all they that are without her shall never be saved.

His only printed works are a fragment on the Eucharist, and the Moralia A brevi ala and De Origine Animae.

Among his writings are: a comment on the Moralia of St. Gregory, a biography of Saint Gerald of Aurillac, three books of Collationes ( moral essays, severe and forceful ).

* L197 ) Moralia: Volume I.

* L222 ) Moralia: Volume II.

* L245 ) Moralia: Volume III.

* L305 ) Moralia: Volume IV.

* L306 ) Moralia: Volume V. Isis and Osiris.