Plutarch's Moralia (1/1,000)
This shall be an ongoing list covering the next 20 years, and then squat, i'd clutch my breast, and go down without a whimper, just some farts and bodily twitching. But 1,000 has to be in the scope, I may croak when I'm not done most, but being well into them all would be enough, like Selma in Dancer in the Dark, leave before the last song, .. well that idea at least.
Plutarch's Essays or Moralia are a gold mine for a Presocratic aficionado, and for Greek thinkers in general I think, ... when I first got intrigued by this guy it was in Fassbinder's last film Querelle, it has these fatalistic interludes with ghostly vocal music with texts on screen and a voice reading it, one of those texts came from PLUTARCH, and come to think of it Plutarch is found when you look into the life of The Doors front man.
Plutarch's Parallel Lives is his most well known work, imo his essays are the better to digest, it's more on the philosophy side, biography is splendid though, but if ya had the choice, you'd have to make a choice, biographers are plenty, what is more precious, what more applicable?
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Plutarch's Essays or Moralia are a gold mine for a Presocratic aficionado, and for Greek thinkers in general I think, ... when I first got intrigued by this guy it was in Fassbinder's last film Querelle, it has these fatalistic interludes with ghostly vocal music with texts on screen and a voice reading it, one of those texts came from PLUTARCH, and come to think of it Plutarch is found when you look into the life of The Doors front man.
Plutarch's Parallel Lives is his most well known work, imo his essays are the better to digest, it's more on the philosophy side, biography is splendid though, but if ya had the choice, you'd have to make a choice, biographers are plenty, what is more precious, what more applicable?
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46-50, M
