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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.
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.
Pages in category "Works by Plutarch" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D. De genio Socratis; L.
This is a list of most influential Greek authors of antiquity (by alphabetic order): ... Plutarch – History, Biography, Philosophy; Posidippus (comic poet) – Comedy;
The Moralia include On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander the Great, an important adjunct to Plutarch's Life of the great general; On the Worship of Isis and Osiris, a crucial source of information on Egyptian religious rites; [2] and On the Malice of Herodotus (which may, like the orations on Alexander's accomplishments, have been a rhetorical exercise), [3] in which Plutarch criticizes ...
Plutarch's The Dinner of the Seven Wise Men, in the Loeb Classical Library. Seven Sages of Greece with illustrations and further links. Jona Lendering's article Seven Sages includes a chart of various canonical lists. Sentences of the Seven Sages; Fragment of a poem in which the Seven Wise Men were mentioned together, from Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Ps.-Plutarch, De vita et poesi Homeri [16] Dio Cocceianus, De Homero [16] 1493 [13] Isocrates, Orationes [13] [17] Ulrich Scinzenzeler & Sebastianus de Ponte Tremulo [18] Milan [13] Edited by Demetrius Chalcondyles. The edition also contains 3 ancient lives of Isocrates written by Plutarch, Philostratus and Dionysius of Halicarnassus. [13] [17 ...
The book states Haymitch and Plutarch had some difficulty in keeping her from being executed at the end of the war, but her imprisonment had actually helped in that regard. In the films, Effie's role in the third film, Mockingjay Part 1 , is expanded as, rather than getting captured by the Capitol, she is instead evacuated against her will by ...