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  2. Plutarch - Wikipedia

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    Plutarch (/ ˈ p l uː t ɑːr k /; ... [67] produced a new translation of the Lives for the Loeb Classical Library. The Moralia is also included in the Loeb series, ...

  3. Loeb Classical Library - Wikipedia

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    Under the inspiration drawn from the book series specializing in publishing classical texts exclusively in the original languages, such as the Bibliotheca Teubneriana, established in 1849 or the Oxford Classical Texts book series, founded in 1894, [2] the Loeb Classical Library was conceived and initially funded by the Jewish-German-American banker and philanthropist James Loeb (1867–1933).

  4. Parallel Lives - Wikipedia

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    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 by the Greco-Roman philosopher, historian, and Apollonian priest Plutarch, probably at the beginning of the second century.

  5. Wikipedia:WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome/Guides ...

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    Through the Wikipedia Library, we now also have access to the Loeb Classical Library Online. Contained therein are authoritative and modern translations based on updated critical version of the texts for most of the ancient corpus over more than 500 print volumes.

  6. Moralia - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Seven Sages of Greece - Wikipedia

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    Loeb Classical Library. 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

  8. Timocreon - Wikipedia

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    Plutarch is the main source of information about Timocreon's role as a medizer and enemy of Themistocles (Themistocles 21), while Herodotus supplies much of the background information (Histories 8.111-12). According to these accounts, Themistocles, the hero of the Battle of Salamis, gave up the pursuit of the retreating Persians to extort money ...

  9. Thoas (king of Lemnos) - Wikipedia

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    Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Plutarch, Theseus in Lives, Volume I: Theseus and Romulus. Lycurgus and Numa. Solon and Publicola. Translated by Bernadotte Perrin. Loeb Classical Library No. 46. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1914. ISBN 978-0-674-99052-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.

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