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Philosophy

Table-Talk · Quaestiones convivales

Plutarch

Translated by Thomas Creech, rev. William W. Goodwin

Nine books of dinner conversations: why we hunger more in autumn, which came first, the hen or the egg, and many more.

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  • Greek: ed. Grēgorios N. Vernardakēs, from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-greekLit, tlg0007.tlg112, CC BY-SA 4.0).
  • English: Thomas Creech, rev. William W. Goodwin, from the Perseus Digital Library (tlg0007.tlg112.perseus-eng2). Notes are not included.
  • Rows follow the references the two texts share (books, chapters and sections), cut where both reach the end of a sentence.

Contents · 20

  1. 1Book I · chapters 1–4
  2. 2Book I · chapters 4–10
  3. 3Book II · chapters 1–3
  4. 4Book II · chapters 4–10
  5. 5Book III · chapters 1–5
  6. 6Book III · chapters 6–10
  7. 7Book IV · chapters 1–2
  8. 8Book IV · chapters 3–6
  9. 9Book V · chapters 1–5
  10. 10Book V · chapters 6–10
  11. 11Book VI · chapters 1–6
  12. 12Book VI · chapters 7–10
  13. 13Book VII · chapters 1–4
  14. 14Book VII · chapters 4–6
  15. 15Book VII · chapters 7–10
  16. 16Book VIII · chapters 1–4
  17. 17Book VIII · chapters 4–8
  18. 18Book VIII · chapters 8–10
  19. 19Book IX · chapters 1–13
  20. 20Book IX · chapters 14–15