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Pages in category "Ancient Greek biographers" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Ambryon;
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.
Plutarch (/ ˈ p l uː t ɑːr k /; Ancient Greek: Πλούταρχος, Ploútarchos, Koinē Greek: [ˈplúːtarkʰos]; c. AD 46 – 120s) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, [1] historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi.
Ancient biography, or bios, as distinct from modern biography, was a genre of Greek and Roman literature interested in describing the goals, achievements, failures, and character of ancient historical persons and whether or not they should be imitated.
The Greek/Latin edition of 1692 by Marcus Meibomius divided each of the ten books into paragraphs of equal length, and progressively numbered them, providing the system still in use today. [ 34 ] The first critical edition of the entire text, by H.S. Long in the Oxford Classical Texts , was not produced until 1964; [ 25 ] this edition was ...
Herodotus [a] (Ancient Greek: Ἡρόδοτος, romanized: Hēródotos; c. 484 – c. 425 BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus (now Bodrum, Turkey), under Persian control in the 5th century BC, and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy.
Xenophon was a student of Socrates. In his Lives of Eminent Philosophers, the Greek biographer Diogenes Laërtius (who writes many centuries later) reports how Xenophon met Socrates. "They say that Socrates met [Xenophon] in a narrow lane, and put his stick across it and prevented him from passing by, asking him where all kinds of necessary ...
Lamprias (Greek: Λαμπρίας) was the grandfather of the Greek biographer and philosoper Plutarch.He appears as a character in several of Plutarch's works, notably the "Table Talks" [1] He's also mentioned in Plutarch's Life of Antony as a friend of Philotas, one of Mark Antony's court physicians and a witness for some of the stories Plutarch relates about Antony and Cleopatra. [2]