SCRIPTURA

Philosophy

On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander · De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute

Plutarch

Translated by John Phillips, rev. William W. Goodwin

Two speeches arguing that Alexander won his empire by courage and wisdom, not by luck, and spread Greek culture across the world.

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  • Greek: ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs, from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-greekLit, tlg0007.tlg087, CC BY-SA 4.0).
  • English: John Phillips, rev. William W. Goodwin, from the Perseus Digital Library (tlg0007.tlg087.perseus-eng4). Notes are not included.
  • Rows follow the references the two texts share (chapters and sections), cut where both reach the end of a sentence.

Contents · 3

  1. 1Chapter 1
  2. 2Chapters 1–2
  3. 3Chapter 2