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Plutarch's Theosophical Essays
Plutarch · Classical · c. 100 CE
Translated by Charles William King (Bohn's Classical Library, 1882)
8 chapters
Plutarch's collected religious and philosophical essays from the Moralia — anchored by On Isis and Osiris, the only complete ancient account of the Egyptian myth and the most sophisticated Hellenistic philosophical reading of it. Plus his four Delphic essays on oracles and prophecy, and the short moral treatise On Superstition.
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Contents
- 1Preface by C. W. King
- 2On Isis and Osiris
- 3On the Cessation of Oracles
- 4On the Pythian Responses
- 5On the E at Delphi
- 6On the Apparent Face in the Orb of the Moon
- 7On Superstition
- 8Appendix
