The MouseionPlutarchOn the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander
On the Fortune or the Virtue of AlexanderΠερὶ τῆς Ἀλεξάνδρου τύχης ἢ ἀρετῆς λόγος Α, λόγος Β
By Plutarch. De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute · English title from the library's translation
- Kind of writing
- Rhetoric
- Dialect
- Attic/Koine
- Written
- 1st–2nd c. AD
- Length
- 9,654 words analysed
- Vocabulary
- 65% common words
- In the library
- 2 Greek texts, 2 English translations
The texts
Each is the collection's own file, read unchanged from the Perseus Digital Library or Open Greek and Latin. The description is theirs too.
- Greek textPlutarch. Moralia, Vol. 4. Babbitt, Frank Cole, editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1936 (printing).
- Greek textPlutarch. Plutarchi Chaeronensis Moralia, Vol 2. Vernardakēs, Grēgorios N., editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1889.
- English translationPlutarch. Moralia, Vol. 4. Babbitt, Frank Cole, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1936 (printing).
- English translationPlutarch. Plutarch's Morals, Vol. 1. Goodwin, William W., editor; Phillips, John, translator. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company; Cambridge: Press of John Wilson and Son, 1874.