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Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3

by Plutarch (46–119)

163 chapters, about 224,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. Chapter 1 100 words
2. PLUTARCH, ZEUXIPPUS, THEON, ARISTODEMUS. 10,900 words
3. END OF ONE-------- 2,800 words
4. BOOK I. 400 words
5. CHAPTER I. WHAT IS NATURE? 200 words
6. CHAPTER II. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A PRINCIPLE AND AN ELEMENT? 200 words
7. CHAPTER III. WHAT ARE PRINCIPLES? 2,400 words
8. CHAPTER V. WHETHER THE UNIVERSE IS ONE SINGLE THING. 800 words
9. CHAPTER VII. WHAT IS GOD? 800 words
10. CHAPTER IX. OF MATTER. 300 words
11. CHAPTER XII. OF BODIES. 900 words
12. CHAPTER XXIV. OF GENERATION AND CORRUPTION. 300 words
13. CHAPTER XXVIII. OF THE NATURE OF FATE. 200 words
14. CHAPTER XXIX. OF FORTUNE. 300 words
15. CHAPTER I. OF THE WORLD. 200 words
16. CHAPTER III. WHETHER THE WORLD BE AN ANIMAL. 400 words
17. CHAPTER VI. FROM WHAT ELEMENT GOD DID BEGIN TO RAISE THE FABRIC OF THE WORLD. 200 words
18. CHAPTER VII. IN WHAT FORM AND ORDER THE WORLD WAS COMPOSED. 200 words
19. CHAPTER VIII. WHAT IS THE CAUSE OF THE WORLD'S INCLINATION. 300 words
20. CHAPTER XI. OF HEAVEN, WHAT IS ITS NATURE AND ESSENCE. 200 words
21. CHAPTER XIII. WHAT IS THE ESSENCE OF THE STARS, AND HOW THEY ARE COMPOSED. 300 words
22. CHAPTER XV. OF THE ORDER AND PLACE OF THE STARS. 300 words
23. CHAPTER XVII. WHENCE DO THE STARS RECEIVE THEIR LIGHT? 200 words
24. CHAPTER XX. OF THE ESSENCE OF THE SUN. 400 words
25. CHAPTER XXII. WHAT IS THE FIGURE OR SHAPE OF THE SUN. 200 words
26. CHAPTER XXIV. OF THE ECLIPSE OF THE SUN. 300 words
27. CHAPTER XXV. OF THE ESSENCE OF THE MOON. 200 words
28. CHAPTER XXVIII. FROM WHENCE IS IT THAT THE MOON RECEIVES HER LIGHT? 100 words
29. CHAPTER XXIX. OF THE ECLIPSE OF THE MOON. 300 words
30. CHAPTER XXXI. HOW FAR THE MOON IS REMOVED FROM THE SUN. 300 words
31. CHAPTER I. OF THE GALAXY, OR THE MILKY WAY. 200 words
32. CHAPTER II. OF COMETS AND SHOOTING FIRES, AND THOSE WHICH RESEMBLE BEAMS. 700 words
33. CHAPTER V. OF THE RAINBOW. 700 words
34. CHAPTER VII. OF WINDS. 500 words
35. CHAPTER XIII. OF THE MOTION OF THE EARTH. 200 words
36. CHAPTER XV. OF EARTHQUAKES. 600 words
37. CHAPTER XVII. OF TIDES, OR OF THE EBBING AND FLOWING OF THE SEA. 300 words
38. CHAPTER I. OF THE OVERFLOWING OF THE NILE. 300 words
39. CHAPTER II. OF THE SOUL. 300 words
40. CHAPTER IV. OF THE PARTS OF THE SOUL. 400 words
41. CHAPTER VII. OF THE SOUL'S IMMORTALITY. 300 words
42. CHAPTER X. HOW MANY SENSES ARE THERE? 700 words
43. CHAPTER XIII. OF OUR SIGHT, AND BY WHAT MEANS WE SEE. 200 words
44. CHAPTER XIV. OF THOSE IMAGES WHICH ARE PRESENTED TO OUR EYES IN MIRRORS. 500 words
45. CHAPTER XIX. OF THE VOICE. 400 words
46. CHAPTER XX. WHETHER THE VOICE IS INCORPOREAL. WHAT IS IT THAT THE GIVES ECHO? 400 words
47. CHAPTER XXII. OF RESPIRATION OR BREATHING. 800 words
48. CHAPTER II. WHENCE DREAMS DO ARISE. 500 words
49. CHAPTER VII. AFTER WHAT MANNER MALES AND FEMALES ARE GENERATED. 200 words
50. CHAPTER VIII. BY WHAT MEANS IT IS THAT MONSTROUS BIRTHS ARE EFFECTED. 200 words
51. CHAPTER X. WHENCE IT IS THAT ONE BIRTH GIVES TWO OR THREE CHILDREN. 400 words
52. CHAPTER XIII. WHENCE ARISETH BARRENNESS IN WOMEN, AND IMPOTENCY IN MEN? 200 words
53. CHAPTER XIV. HOW IT ARISES THAT MULES ARE BARREN. 100 words
54. CHAPTER XV. WHETHER THE INFANT IN THE MOTHER'S WOMB BE AN ANIMAL. 300 words
55. CHAPTER XVII. WHAT PART OF THE BODY IS FIRST FORMED IN THE WOMB. 1,400 words
56. CHAPTER XXIII. WHAT ARE THE CAUSES OF SLEEP AND DEATH? 300 words
57. CHAPTER XXV. WHETHER SLEEP OR DEATH APPERTAINS TO THE SOUL OR BODY. 200 words
58. CHAPTER XXVI. HOW PLANTS INCREASE. 300 words
59. CHAPTER XXVII. OF NUTRITION AND GROWTH. 300 words
60. CHAPTER XXX. OF HEALTH, SICKNESS, AND OLD AGE. 300 words
61. END OF THREE--------- 800 words
62. BOOK 1. 300 words
63. SOSSIUS, SENECIO, ARISTO, PLUTARCH, CRATO, AND OTHERS. 2,800 words
64. THE SAME. 500 words
65. CRATO, THEON, PLUTARCH, AND OTHERS. 1,300 words
66. SOSSIUS, PLUTARCH, AND OTHERS. 700 words
67. PHILINUS, PLUTARCH, AND OTHERS. 700 words
68. PLUTARCH AND OTHERS. 200 words
69. PLUTARCH, LAMPRIAS, AND OTHERS. 700 words
70. THEON, THEMISTOCLES, METRIUS, FLORUS, PLUTARCH; AND OTHERS. 700 words
71. PHILOPAPPUS, MARCUS, MILO, GLAUCIAS, PLUTARCH, AND OTHERS. 700 words
72. BOOK II. 200 words
73. SOSSIUS, SENECIO, AND PLUTARCH. 3,000 words
74. GLAUCLAS, XENOCLES, LAMPRIAS, PLUTARCH, AND OTHERS. 400 words
75. QUESTION III. WHICH WAS FIRST THE BIRD OR THE EGG? 1,600 words
76. SOSICLES, LYSIMACHUS, PLUTARCH, PHILINUS. 500 words
77. LYSIMACHUS, CRATES, TIMON, PLUTARCH. 300 words
78. SOCLARUS, CRATO, PHILO. 500 words
79. CHAEREMONIANUS, PLUTARCH, AND OTHERS. 200 words
80. PLUTARCH, HIS FATHER, AND OTHERS. 200 words
81. PATROCLIAS, THE SAME. 300 words
82. PLUTARCH, HAGIAS. 1,200 words
83. BOOK III 200 words
84. ERATO, AMMONIUS, TRYPHO, PLUTARCH, AND OTHERS. 1,300 words
85. AMMONIUS, TRYPHO, ERATO. 1,100 words
86. FLORUS, SYLLA. 500 words
87. APOLLONIDES, ATHRYILATUS. 600 words
88. ATHRYILATUS, PLUTARCH. 800 words
89. YOUTHS, ZOPYRUS, OLYMPICHUS, SOCLARUS. 1,400 words
90. PLUTARCH, HIS FATHER, HAGIAS, ARISTAENETUS, AND OTHER YOUTH. 400 words
91. PLUTARCH, HIS FATHER. 500 words
92. ARISTO, PLUTARCH, PLUTARCH'S FATHER. 400 words
93. EUTHYDEMUS, SATYRUS. 800 words
94. BOOK IV. 400 words
95. PHILO, PLUTARCH, MARCION. 1,600 words
96. AGEMACHUS, PLUTARCH, DOROTHEUS. 1,000 words
97. SOSSIUS SENECIO, PLUTARCH, THEO. 200 words
98. CALLISTRATUS, SYMMACHUS, POLYCRATES. 1,400 words
99. CALLISTRATUS, POLYCRATES, LAMPRIAS. 1,100 words
100. SYMMACHUS, LAMPRIAS, MOERAGENES. 800 words
101. BOOK V. 500 words
102. PLUTARCH, BOETHUS. 700 words
103. QUESTION II. THAT THE PRIZE FOR POETS AT THE GAMES WAS ANCIENT. 700 words
104. LUCANIUS, PRAXITELES. 700 words
105. NICERATUS, SOSICLES, ANTIPATER, PLUTARCH. 600 words
106. PLUTARCH, ONESICRATES, LAMPRIAS THE ELDER. 1,200 words
107. METRIUS FLORUS, PLUTARCH, SOCLARUS, PATROCLES, CAIUS. 1,900 words
108. LAMPRIAS THE ELDER, AND OTHERS. 300 words
109. FLORUS, APOLLOPHANES, PLUTARCH, PHILINUS. 700 words
110. BOOK VI. 300 words
111. PLUTARCH AND OTHERS. 400 words
112. PHILO, PLUTARCH. 1,400 words
113. THE HOST, PLUTARCH, AND OTHERS. 800 words
114. A GUEST, PLUTARCH, AND OTHERS. 400 words
115. A GUEST, PLUTARCH, AND OTHERS. 400 words
116. A GUEST, PLUTARCH. 600 words
117. NIGER, ARISTIO. 1,200 words
118. PLUTARCH, SOCLARUS, CLEOMENES, AND OTHERS. 1,400 words
119. PLUTARCH, AND OTHERS. 600 words
120. ARISTIO, PLUTARCH, AND OTHERS. 500 words
121. BOOK VII. 300 words
122. NICIAS, PLUTARCH, PROTOGENES, FLORUS. 1,000 words
123. PLUTARCH, PATROCLES, EUTHYDEMUS, FLORUS. 500 words
124. ALEXION, PLUTARCH, AND OTHERS. 600 words
125. FLORUS, EUSTROPHUS, CAESERNIUS, LUCIUS. 1,100 words
126. CALLISTRATUS, LAMPRIAS. 900 words
127. PLUTARCH, FLORUS, CAESERNIUS. 1,900 words
128. DIOGENIANUS, A SOPHIST, PHILIP. 600 words
129. DIOGENIANUS, A SOPHIST, PHILIP. 1,800 words
130. NICOSTRATUS, GLAUCIAS. 300 words
131. GLAUCIAS, NICOSTRATUS. 1,100 words
132. BOOK VIII. 400 words
133. DIOGENIANUS, PLUTARCH, FLORUS, TYNDARES. 700 words
134. DIOGENIANUS, TYNDARES, FLORUS, AUTOBULUS. 1,300 words
135. AMMONIUS, BOETHUS, PLUTARCH, THRASYLLUS, ARISTODEMUS. 1,300 words
136. SOSPIS, HERODES, PROTOGENES, PRAXITELES, CAPHISUS. 1,800 words
137. PLUTARCH'S SONS, THEON'S SONS, THEON, PLUTARCH, SOCLARUS. 800 words
138. SYLLA, LUCIUS, PLUTARCH, PHILINUS. 900 words
139. EMPEDOCLES, SYLLA, LUCIUS, TYNDARES, NESTOR. 1,500 words
140. PHILO, DIOGENIANUS, PLUTARCH. 1,500 words
141. FLORUS, PLUTARCH, PLUTARCH'S SONS, FAVORINUS. 1,100 words
142. QUESTION I. CONCERNING VERSES SEASONABLY AND UNSEASONABLY APPLIED. 400 words
143. AMMONIUS, HERMEAS, PROTOGENES, PLUTARCH, ZOPYRION. 900 words
144. HERMEAS, ZOPYRION, MAXIMUS. 100 words
145. HYLAS, SOSPIS, AMMONIUS, LAMPRIAS. 700 words
146. MENEPHYLUS, HYLAS, LAMPRIAS. 300 words
147. QUESTION XII. IS IT MORE PROBABLE THAT THE NUMBER OF THE STARS IS EVEN OR ODD? 200 words
148. PLUTARCH, PROTOGENES, GLAUCIAS, SOSPIS. 2,600 words
149. AMMONIUS AND THRASYBULUS. 300 words
150. LAMPRIAS, DIADUMENUS 17,100 words
151. CONTRADICTIONS OF THE STOICS. 14,600 words
152. THE EATING OF FLESH. 3,900 words
153. CONCERNING FATE. 5,100 words
154. AGAINST COLOTES, THE DISCIPLE AND FAVORITE OF EPICURUS. 13,300 words
155. PLATONIC QUESTIONS. 6,300 words
156. THE LIFE AND POETRY OF HOMER 13,800 words
157. DIOCLES TO NICARCHUS 12,300 words
158. HOW A YOUNG MAN OUGHT TO HEAR POEMS. 7,000 words
159. ABSTRACT OF A COMPARISON BETWEEN ARISTOPHANE AND MENANDER 1,100 words
160. THE MALICE OF HERODOTUS. 11,800 words
161. INDEX. 1,600 words
162. Discourse, separating the useful part of a. 1,600 words
163. JUS TRIUM LIBERORUM. 2,500 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Behavior
• Circle
• Cloud
• Color
• Conjunction (grammar)
• Croesus
• Darkness
• Death
• Discourse
• Earth
• Earth (classical element)
• Earth (wuxing)
• Embryo
• Epithet
• Fasting
• Fire (classical element)
• Fire (wuxing)
• God
• Heaven
• Homer
• I
• Incorporeality
• Ionians
• Lightning
• Matter
• Moon
• Mutation
• Nature
• Nature (journal)
• Nature (philosophy)

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