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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 ...
Plutarch was born to a prominent family in the small town of Chaeronea, [4] about 30 kilometres (19 mi) east of Delphi, in the Greek region of Boeotia.His family was long established in the town; his father was named Autobulus and his grandfather was named Lamprias. [3]
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.
Print depicting Ancient Campus as it would have appeared before 1859. The Brafferton (left) and President's House (right) flank the Wren Building. The history of the College of William & Mary can be traced back to a 1693 royal charter establishing "a perpetual College of Divinity, Philosophy, Languages, and the good arts and sciences" in the British Colony of Virginia.
The Virginia Centre for the Book is a program developed through Virginia Humanities and seeks to "unite communities of readers, writers, artists, and book lovers through year-round programs and partnership initiatives...promoting books, reading, literacy, and the literary life of Virginia" [48] The center is affiliated with University of ...
Patrick Henry College (PHC) is a private liberal arts non-denominational conservative Protestant Christian college located in Purcellville, Virginia. [2] [3] [4] Its departments teach classical liberal arts, government, strategic intelligence in national security, economics and business analytics, history, journalism, environmental science and stewardship, and literature.
Eighty-three years after leaving her master’s program at Stanford University for love, 105-year-old Virginia “Ginger” Hislop returned to earn her degree.
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.