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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.
Plutarch read widely, and often combined several sources for his Lives, although he mostly followed one source at a time for a particular event or topic. [10] Plutarch cites seven authors in the Life of Caesar: Asinius Pollio was a writer of the first century BC. A soldier who served under Caesar then Octavian, he turned to literature at the ...
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 goes further back to describe an older Greek writing system, similar as he attested to the Egyptian writing. In his "Discourse Concerning Socrates's Daemon", [ 11 ] he describes how Agesilaus king of Sparta, uncovers Alcmene 's tomb at Haliartus and discovers a brazen plate on which a very ancient script was written, much older than ...
Handwriting of Erasmus of Rotterdam: Plutarch's How to profit from one's enemies. In a similar vein to the Adages was his translation of Plutarch's Moralia: parts were published from 1512 onwards and collected as the Opuscula plutarchi [20] (c1514).
In 63 BC, when the Kingdom of Pontus was annexed by the Roman general Pompey, the remaining sisters, wives, mistresses and children of Mithridates VI in Pontus were put to death. Plutarch, writing in his Lives, states that Mithridates' sister and five of his children took part in Pompey's triumphal procession on his return to Rome in 61 BC. [59]
See original text in Perseus program. Lycurgus, Contra Leocratem. Aristophanes (2002). Lysistrata and Other Plays. New York: Penguin Classics. Plutarch. The Training of Children, c. 110 CE.. See original text in . Plutarch (1960). The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives. New York: Penguin Classics. Xenophon (28 January 2010).
The agōgē was divided into three age categories: the paides (about ages 7–14), paidiskoi (ages 15–19), and the hēbōntes (ages 20–29). [4] The boys were further subdivided into groups called agelai (singular agelē, meaning "pack"), with whom they would sleep, and were led by an older boy (eirēn) who Plutarch claims was chosen by the boys themselves.