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Plutarch · c. AD 46-after 119

Love Stories

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Plutarch's Love Stories (Amatoriae narrationes, here under the title Five Tragical Histories of Love) is a short collection of five tragic tales set in Boeotia, Corinth and Sparta, told as examples of the madness of love. They are Aristoclia of Haliartus, Actaeon son of Melissus, the daughters of Scedasus of Leuctra, Callirrhoe daughter of Phocus and Damocrita of Sparta. Each ends in a death or a disaster that the gods avenge. It follows the Dialogue on Love in the Moralia.

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Greek original with English translation, 2 passages, about 3200 words in English.
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A. I. (1874)
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William W. Goodwin (ed.), Plutarch's Morals, translated from the Greek by several hands, vol. 4, Boston: Little, Brown and Company; Cambridge: Press of John Wilson and Son, 1874 (Greek text: Gregorius N. Bernardakis, Plutarchi Chaeronensis Moralia, vol. 4, Leipzig: Teubner, 1892, as digitised by Perseus)
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Plutarch, Love Stories 1 (by story)

Contents · 2 passages

  1. 1–2Aristoclia and Straton at Haliartus; Actaeon, son of Melissus, and Archias1153 words
  2. 3–5The daughters of Scedasus; Callirrhoe, daughter of Phocus; Damocrita of Sparta2041 words

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English translation by A. I. (1874). Original text: William W. Goodwin (ed.), Plutarch's Morals, translated from the Greek by several hands, vol. 4, Boston: Little, Brown and Company; Cambridge: Press of John Wilson and Son, 1874 (Greek text: Gregorius N. Bernardakis, Plutarchi Chaeronensis Moralia, vol. 4, Leipzig: Teubner, 1892, as digitised by Perseus).

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