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Title: Essays and Miscellanies
The Complete Works Volume 3

Author: Plutarch

Release Date: February, 2002 [Etext #3052]
Posting Date: November 2, 2009

Language: English

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ESSAYS AND MISCELLANIES

The Complete Works Volume 3

By Plutarch

CONTENTS

PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS

That It Is Not Possible To Live Pleasurably According To The
Doctrine Of Epicurus

That A Philosopher Ought Chiefly To Converse With Great Men

Sentiments Concerning Nature, With Which Philosophers Were
Delighted

Abstract Of A Discourse Showing That The Stoics Speak Greater
Improbabilities Than The Poets

Symposiacs

Common Conceptions Against The Stoics

Contradictions Of The Stoics

The Eating Of Flesh

Concerning Fate

Against Colotes, The Disciple And Favorite Of Epicurus

Platonic Questions

LITERARY ESSAYS

The Life And Poetry Of Homer

The Banquet Of The Seven Wise Men

How A Young Man Ought To Hear Poems

Abstract Of A Comparison Between Aristophanes And Menander

The Malice Of Herodotus

PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS

THAT IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO LIVE PLEASURABLY ACCORDING TO THE DOCTRINE OF
EPICURUS.

PLUTARCH, ZEUXIPPUS, THEON, ARISTODEMUS.

Epicurus's great confidant and familiar, Colotes, set forth a book with
this title to it, that according to the tenets of the other philosophers
it is impossible to live. Now what occurred to me then to say against
him, in the defence of those philosophers, hath been already put into
writing by me. But since upon breaking up of our lecture several things
have happened to be spoken afterwards in the walks in further opposition
to his party, I thought it not amiss to recollect them also, if for
no other reason, yet for this one, that those who will needs be
contradicting other men may see that they ought not to run cursorily
over the discourses and writings of those they would disprove, nor