The feast of the Seven Sages. Sayings of kings and generals. Plutarch

Plutarch is called in different ways: "ancient humanist" (referring to his slight nostalgia for the past, attention to private life and philosophy of active existence), "educator of Europe" (his "Biographies" were read by great people of many centuries, up to Napoleon, Goethe and Beethoven), "good Plutarch" (provincial, a family man, a sociable person, as we would say). But it is better to call him a teacher of erudites: we all love stories and wise thoughts, anecdotes and paradoxes - and Plutarch teaches us to really love all this, not as an inarticulate fascination with someone else's wit and brilliance of speech, but as a worthy subject of a worthy person.
This edition includes "The Feast of the Seven Sages" and "Sayings of Kings and Generals" translated by M. L. Gasparov and with an introductory article by A. V. Markov.