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... moral education . The general aim of purveying moral education through learning can of course be attempted on many different levels . Plutarch's appeal was to the highly - trained , the imaginative , the leisured . He was not offering a ...
... moral education . The general aim of purveying moral education through learning can of course be attempted on many different levels . Plutarch's appeal was to the highly - trained , the imaginative , the leisured . He was not offering a ...
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... moral- ising : ' I will speak to you in good will ' ( 286 ) is said to illustrate ' the philosophical character ' ; ' Archilochus and Hipponax wrote invectives against those who injured them ... but Hesiod , the true man of the muses ...
... moral- ising : ' I will speak to you in good will ' ( 286 ) is said to illustrate ' the philosophical character ' ; ' Archilochus and Hipponax wrote invectives against those who injured them ... but Hesiod , the true man of the muses ...
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... moral topics on which even opponents drew freely . The Moral Letters of the Stoic Seneca were to some extent modelled on Epicurus ' , whose gnōmai he often quotes . In Superstition ( 164E ) Plutarch repeatedly reminds us of Lucretius ...
... moral topics on which even opponents drew freely . The Moral Letters of the Stoic Seneca were to some extent modelled on Epicurus ' , whose gnōmai he often quotes . In Superstition ( 164E ) Plutarch repeatedly reminds us of Lucretius ...
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