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Plutarch's Romane Questions, Paperback / softback Book

Plutarch's Romane Questions Paperback / softback

Edited by Frank Byron Jebons

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An Enquirie into the Causes of Manie Fashions and Customes of Rome.

A Treatise fit for them who are conversant in the reading of Romane histories and antiquities, giving a light to many places otherwise obscure and hard to be understood.

Translated A.D. 1603 by Philemon Holland, M.A. (1552-1637), Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. With Dissertations on Italian Cults, Myths, Taboos, Man-Worship, Aryan Marriage Sympathetic Magic and the Eating of Beans.

This edition published in 1892 was edited and with an introduction by Frank Byron Jevons, M.A. (1858-1936), Classical Tutor to the University of Durham.

Plutarch (c. CE 46 - CE 120) was a Greek biographer and essayist who became a Roman citizen.

His surviving works were written in Greek but intended for both Greek and Roman readers.

This work forms part of Book IV of his Moralia.

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