Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Plutarch's Moralia, Vol. 9 of 15: 697 C-771 E
The table-talk is a collection of dialogues purporting to reproduce the after-dinner conversation of Plu tarch and his friends and relatives on various occa sions. They differ widely in dramatic liveliness, and in the degree to which they seem to be based on recollection, or on memoranda, of actual conversa tions. Their subject matter ranges from scientific or philosophical questions, more or less serious, to anti quarian, historical, and ethical topics some deal with the symposium or dinner party itself. In Book VII, the scene of two or three of the dia logues (7, 8, and probably 3) is laid in Plutarch's home in Chaeronea, that of 2 and 5 at Delphi, and that of 9 and 10 at Athens the others give no clue as to location. The seventh and eighth dialogues are con nected dramatically, as are the ninth and tenth. A peculiar phrase at the beginning of 10 suggests that some revision or rearrangement has taken place. The lack of dramatic detail causes Questions 3 and 6 to seem less like reports of actual conversation than the rest and the rather formal organization of Question 6 heightens this impression. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.