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  2. Plutarch - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. History of the Greek alphabet - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

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

  5. Life of Caesar (Plutarch) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Agoge - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Book excerpt: "Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live"

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    Susan Morrison's biography of the late-night comedy producer is also the history of a pop culture institution, now marking its 50th year.

  8. 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 ...

  9. Opinion: The ideas in Project 2025? Reagan tried them, and ...

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    President Reagan, shown in 1981, based many of his policies on ideas from the Heritage Foundation publication "The Mandate for Leadership." Project 2025 makes up a majority of the latest edition ...