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Thus, Plutarch sought to combine the philosophical and religious conception of things and to remain as close as possible to tradition. [41] Plutarch was the teacher of Favorinus. [42] Plutarch was a vegetarian, although how long and how strictly he adhered to this diet is unclear. [43] He wrote about the ethics of meat-eating in two discourses ...
The republic, for reasons still debated by historians, in 177 BC also stopped regularly establishing Roman colonies in Italy. One of the major functions of these colonies was to provide land for the urban and rural poor, increasing the draft pool of landed farmers as well as providing economic opportunities to the lower classes.
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Plutarch - Fall of the Roman Republic, Crassus; Livy - Histories of Rome; Plutarch's Lives translated from the Original Greek: with notes, critical and historical, and a life of Plutarch, Volume 1856, translated by John Langhorne and William Langhorne, Applegate and Co., 1860, 668 pp., pp. 358–371 at Google Books
Engraving facing the title page of an 18th-century edition of Plutarch's Lives. The Parallel Lives (Ancient Greek: Βίοι Παράλληλοι, Bíoi Parállēloi; Latin: Vītae Parallēlae) is a series of 48 biographies of famous men written in Greek by the Greco-Roman philosopher, historian, and Apollonian priest Plutarch, probably at the beginning of the second century.
Some Roman sources blame the Armenian king for the heavy defeat, but others do not; Strabo and Plutach disagree sharply on the issue. [16] Plutach even contradicts himself on whether the Armenian king's withdrawal of the cavalry, or Antony's decision to campaign during the winter season, was to blame for the expedition's failure. [ 7 ]
Cicero was a Roman politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, philosopher, and constitutionalist who lived during the years of 106–43 BC. He held the positions of Roman senator and Roman consul (chief-magistrate) and played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire.
The French Revolutionaries, for whom Tacitus had been a central part of their early education, made much use of his criticisms of tyranny and love of the republic—he is one of the authors most often quoted (behind Cicero, Horace, and Plutarch) by the members of the National and Legislative Assemblies and by revolutionary authors such as ...