Summary
Plutarch: On the Face Seen on the Moon's Disk
In this famous dialogue of Plutarch's, a mixed company, with Lampria, Plutarch's brother, as narrator, gathers to consider the nature and movement of the Moon from multiple viewpoints. The first part of the dialogue is of exceptional importance for the history of astronomy, cosmology, geography and optics; the second part, which attracted a lot of attention in the past, is the eschatological myth about the journey of the soul to the moon.
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