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Included in Moralia is a letter addressed by Plutarch to his wife, bidding her not give way to excessive grief at the death of their two-year-old daughter, who was named Timoxena after her mother. [18] In the letter, Plutarch expresses his belief in reincarnation: [19] The soul, being eternal, after death is like a caged bird that has been ...
Plutarch and his wife, Timoxena, [19] had at least four sons and one daughter, although two died in childhood. A letter is still extant, addressed by Plutarch to his wife, bidding her not to grieve too much at the death of their two-year-old daughter, who was named Timoxena after her mother, which also mentions the loss of a young son, Chaeron ...
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.
In 1736, Jean Leconte de Bièvre published the Histoire de deux Aspasies, also based on Plutarch's depiction, which portrayed Aspasia as an educated woman and Pericles' teacher as well as his wife. [69] The eighteenth century also saw the first known image of Aspasia to be created by a woman, Marie Bouliard's Aspasie. [70]
Artakama was not mentioned in historical texts again, probably because Ptolemy quietly discarded her when he left Babylon for Egypt after Alexander's death. If so, his action was a contrast to that of his friend Seleucus, whose Persian wife, Apama, married also on that occasion, remained
His wife baked their everyday bread and cooked their everyday meals herself, and Phocion drew water, pumping it with his own hands. [3] Plutarch reports a number of incidents when Macedonian leaders attempted to bribe Phocion and he refused. Philip II offered much money to him and the Macedonian heralds mentioned the future needs of his sons.
Coldplay has accomplished a monumental feat in the band's new "All My Love" music video, which emotionally wraps 98 years of Hollywood legend Dick Van Dyke's life into a single seven-minute ...
Aretaphila of Cyrene (Ancient Greek: Ἀρεταφίλα; fl. c. 50 BC) was a noblewoman from Cyrene, an ancient Greek colony in North Africa. According to Plutarch in his work De mulierum virtutes (On the Virtues of Women), [1] she deposed the tyrant Nicocrates.