Selected Essays
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共 98 题- Selected Essays of Plutarch
- SELECTED ESSAYS OF PLUTARCH
- VOL. II
- TRANSLATED WITH INTRODUCTION
- BY
- A. O. PRICKARD
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- On the Genius of Socrates 1
- Three Pythian Dialogues 52
- I. On the ‘E’ at Delphi 57
- III. On the Cessation of the Oracles 112
- From the Dialogue ‘On the Soul’ 214
- On Superstition 219
- Notes 309
- Note on the Myths in Plutarch 313
- Index 321
- ON THE GENIUS OF SOCRATES
- INTRODUCTION
- A DIALOGUE HELD AT ATHENS
- SPEAKERS
- THREE PYTHIAN DIALOGUES
- INTRODUCTION
- I. On the E at Delphi,
- II. Why the Pythia does not now give her Oracles in Verse,
- III. On the cessation of the Oracles,
- THE SPEAKERS
- 9. Which relate to the legends of Apollo and also of Dionysus.
- ON THE ‘E’ AT DELPHI
- And still earlier Stesichorus:[82]
- P. 409 A.
- THE SPEAKERS
- A. Introductory
- B. Philinus narrates a Conversation between
- 10. Which BOETHUS would explain as successful guesses.
- 19. He mentioned ancient oracles delivered in prose,
- 20. And modern oracles given in verse.
- WHY THE PYTHIA DOES NOT NOW GIVE ORACLES IN VERSE
- The God was in need, and dignity was waived![103]
- I, 118.
- A DIALOGUE INSCRIBED TO TERENTIUS PRISCUS
- THE SPEAKERS
- 14. Instances of daemonic rites,
- 18. DEMETRIUS confirms this from his experiences in and about Britain.
- 26. And considered.
- 39. LAMPRIAS resumes:
- 48. And so in the case of prophetic utterances.
- 50. The influences to which the prophetess is subject.
- ON THE CESSATION OF THE ORACLES
- INTRODUCTION
- ON THE INSTANCES OF DELAY IN DIVINE PUNISHMENT
- A DIALOGUE
- THE SPEAKERS
- I have transposed the verbs as suggested in Wyttenbach’s Commentary.
- ON SUPERSTITION
- INTRODUCTION
- ON SUPERSTITION
- 1 Maccab. 2, 32 foll.
- By JOHN SMITH
- THE CONTENTS OF THE ENSUING DISCOURSE
- Of Superstition
- INTRODUCTION
- PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE
- ANALYSIS
- NOTES
- Supplemental Notes 1918
- NOTE ON THE MYTHS IN PLUTARCH
- NOTE ON THE PLURALITY OF WORLDS AND THE FIVE REGULAR SOLIDS
- A.
- Ausonius, a Latin poet of Bordeaux (A.D. 310-90), 127 _n._
- B.
- C.
- D.
- E.
- F.
- G.
- H.
- I.
- Ithaca, 193·
- J.
- L.
- M.
- Menaechmus, 14 _n._
- N.
- O.
- P.
- Q.
- R.
- S.
- T.
- U.
- V.
- Vespasian, 211 _n._
- W.
- X.
- Z.
- Printed in England at the Oxford University Press
- End of Project Gutenberg's Selected Essays of Plutarch, Vol. II., by Plutarch