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Plutarch (45120), Plutarch, historian, around AD 46-120, born atChaeronea, Boeotia, in Greece during the Roman Empire. Plutarch
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Extractions: Plutarch, historian, around A.D. 46-120, born at Chaeronea, Boeotia, in Greece during the Roman Empire. Plutarch travelled widely in the Mediterranean world until he returned to Boeotia, becoming a priest at the temple of Apollo at Delphi. His most important historical work is the Parallel Lives , in which he arranges 46 biographies of leading Greeks and leading Romans in tandem to illuminate their shared moral virtues or failings. This moralizing approach to history makes it difficult to rely on Plutarch for certain kinds of details, though his dates are not usually troublesome. After having been trained in philosophy at Athens he travelled and stayed some time at Rome, where he lectured on philosophy and undertook the education of Hadrian. Trajan bestowed consular rank upon him, and Hadrian appointed him procurator of Greece. He died in his native town, where he was archon and priest of the Pythian Apollo. In the Consolation to his Wife on the loss of his young daughter, he tells us that they had brought up four sons besides, one of whom was called by the name of Plutarch's brother, Lamprias. We learn incidentally from this treatise that the writer had been initiated in the secret mysteries of Dionysus, which held that the soul was imperishable. He seems to have been an independent thinker rather than an adherent of any particular school of philosophy. His vast acquaintance with the literature of his time is everywhere apparent.
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Plutarch Biographer / Historian. Plutarch times. Hence Plutarch hasbeen a favorite of scholars and schoolteachers for centuries.
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Extractions: PLUTARCH Biographer / Historian Plutarch is the most famous biographer of the ancient world and the author of a famous collection now known as Plutarch's Lives . Plutarch's original title was Parallel Lives of Famous Greeks and Romans , and that describes his unique approach: the biographies are presented in pairs, the life of one Greek contrasted with that of a similar Roman. Plutarch's subjects were statesmen, generals and public figures including Alexander the Great , Solon, Pyrrhus and Marc Antony , and together the biographies present a basic history of all Greece and Rome up to Plutarch's times. Hence Plutarch has been a favorite of scholars and schoolteachers for centuries. Plutarch's other famous work is the Morals , a collection of essays on topics ranging from religion and zoology to marriage.
Plutarch - Wikipedia
Plutarch. Among these were Soscius Senecio and Fundanus, important membersof the Senate whom Plutarch regarded as patrons and friends.
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Extractions: Main Page Recent changes Edit this page Older versions Special pages Set my user preferences My watchlist Recently updated pages Upload image files Image list Registered users Site statistics Random article Orphaned articles Orphaned images Popular articles Most wanted articles Short articles Long articles Newly created articles Interlanguage links All pages by title Blocked IP addresses Maintenance page External book sources Printable version Talk Log in Help From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Plutarch, ) was a Greek historian Born at Chaeronea Boeotia , in Greece , during the reign of the Roman Emperor Claudius , Plutarch travelled widely in the Mediterranean world, later residing at Rome for an extended period and making friends with influential persons at Rome, to whom some of his later writings were dedicated. Among these were Soscius Senecio and Fundanus, important members of the Senate whom Plutarch regarded as patrons and friends. Returning to Boeotia, he was initiated into the mysteries of the pagan god Apollo . However his duties as a priest of Apollo apparently occupied little of his time - he led a most active social and civic life in addition to his numerous writings, of which about one half are still extant. His most important work is Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans , a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The
Lives Of Famous Greeks And Romans, By Plutarch
English translation of Plutarch's Lives, byJohn Dryden, revised by Clough 1864.
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Plutarch Texts: Life Of Tiberius Gracchus
Plutarch's Life of TIBERIUS GRACCHUS. But of this the particulars are givenin the life of Scipio. Return to Primary Texts Index Plutarch Contents.
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Extractions: TIBERIUS GRACCHUS Cornelia, taking upon herself all the care of the household and the education of her children, approved herself so discreet a matron, so affectionate a mother, and so constant and noble-spirited a widow, that Tiberius seemed to all men to have done nothing unreasonable, in choosing to die for such a woman; who, when king Ptolemy himself proffered her his crown, and would have married her, refused it, and chose rather to live a widow. In this state she continued, and lost all her children, except one daughter, who was married to Scipio the younger, and two sons, Tiberius and Caius, whose lives we are now writing. These she brought up with such care, that though they were without dispute in natural endowments and dispositions the first among the Romans of their time, yet they seemed to owe their virtues even more to their education than to their birth. And as, in the statues and pictures made of Castor and Pollux, though the brothers resemble one another, yet there is a difference to be perceived in their countenances, between the one, who delighted in the cestus, and the other, that was famous in the course, so between these two noble youths, though there was a strong general likeness in their common love of fortitude and temperance, in their liberality, their eloquence, and their greatness of mind, yet in their actions and administrations of public affairs, a considerable variation showed itself. It will not be amiss, before we proceed, to mark the difference between them.
Plutarch & The Issue Of Character By Roger Kimball
Plutarch the issue of character by Roger Kimball. Plutarchs besthearers form a distinguished but exceedingly various group.
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Extractions: by Roger Kimball Click to buy the book(s). What Histories can be found . . . that please and instruct like the Lives of Plutarch ? . . . I am of the same Opinion with that Author, who said, that if he was constrained to fling all the Books of the Antients into the Sea, PLUTARCH should be the last drowned. L c. c. Julius Caesar Antony and Cleopatra Timon of Athens , or Coriolanus , the four plays for whose plots Shakespeare drew heavily upon the then-recently translated Plutarch. Perhaps you also, like me, dipped casually into the odd volume of Plutarch now and again, to find out more about Pericles, Cicero, Alexander the Great, or some other antique worthy. Probably, like me, you left it at that. us Doubtless there are many reasons: the shelf life of novelty, competing attractions, educational atrophy, the temper of the age. It seems clear, at any rate, that wholesale changes of taste are never merely matters of taste. They token a larger metamorphosis: new eyes, new ears, a new scale of values and literary-philosophical assumptions. It is part of the baffling cruelty of fashion to render mute what only yesterday spoke with such extraordinary force and persuasiveness. It is part of the task of criticism to reanimate those voices, to provide that peculiar medium through which they might seem to speak in the way their best, their most ardent hearers understood them. P IV Life of Johnson I prefer to do without the company and remembrance of books, for fear they may interfere with my style. . . . But it is harder for me to do without Plutarch. He is so universal and so full that on all occasions, and however eccentric the subject you have taken up, he makes his way into your work and offers you a liberal hand, inexhaustible in riches and embellishments. It vexes me that I am so greatly exposed to pillage by those who frequent him. I cannot be with him even a little without taking out a drumstick or a wing.
Philosophy/Plutarch Homepage
Plutarch. (c.46 120 AD). from CHAIRONEIA Plutarch'S HOME ON THEWEB. Information about Plutarch. Steve Duncan writes Plutarch
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Extractions: PLUTARCH'S HOME ON THE WEB Steve Duncan writes: Plutarch was a Roman writer and philosopher, part of a philosophical movement known as the Middle Platonists. Although his technical philosophical works are lost, his popular works are regarded as masterpieces of style and are eminently quotable. Plutarch's writings were especially popular during the Renaissance and early modern period, influencing Lord Shaftsbury (who also wrote a book of Lives) among others. There's a large body of philosophical literature from Imperial times (such as the writings of Seneca, Aulus Gellius, and Apuleius) that was once quite popular but which few people read anymore. Maybe someday it will be rediscovered. Interesting Plutarch websites Plutarch is best known for his Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans , which are biographical studies of individual lives, and for his "parallel lives," in which he compares different people's lives. Plutarch's Lives are now available online.
Macedonia FAQ: Alexander By Plutarch
Alexander (died BCE) By Plutarch Written ACE Translated by John Dryden.It being my purpose to write the lives of Alexander the king
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Extractions: Translated by John Dryden Philip, after this vision, sent Chaeron of Megalopolis to consult the oracle of Apollo at Delphi, by which he was commanded to perform sacrifice, and henceforth pay particular honour, above all other gods, to Ammon; and was told he should one day lose that eye with which he presumed to peep through that chink of the door, when he saw the god, under the form of a serpent, in the company of his wife. Eratosthenes says that Olympias, when she attended Alexander on his way to the army in his first expedition, told him the secret of his birth, and bade him behave himself with courage suitable to his divine extraction. Others again affirm that she wholly disclaimed any pretensions of the kind, and was wont to say, "When will Alexander leave off slandering me to Juno?" Alexander was born the sixth of Hecatombaeon, which month the Macedonians call Lous, the same day that the temple of Diana at Ephesus was burnt; which Hegesias of Magnesia makes the occasion of a conceit, frigid enough to have stopped the conflagration. The temple, he says, took fire and was burnt while its mistress was absent, assisting at the birth of Alexander. And all the Eastern soothsayers who happened to be then at Ephesus, looking upon the ruin of this temple to be the forerunner of some other calamity, ran about the town, beating their faces, and crying that this day had brought forth something that would prove fatal and destructive to all Asia.
Plutarch, Greece, Ancient History
Plutarch (c.46120). Plutarch enjoyed his last days with his big familyand their happy life, surrounded by visitors and disciples.
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Extractions: He was an honorary citizen of Athens and was also a priest in Delphi and what we today would call a civil servant, and was considered a brilliant guide, teacher and philosopher by many of his time. He made two visits to Rome, where he held popular speeches. He highly disagreed with the lifestyles of the Romans, and returned to his home village. From Plutarch we know many anecdotes about Alcibiades, the story of Isis and Osiris, Pythagoras family life and society, Lycurgos, Themistocles, Pausanias, Demosthenes, Diogenes, Alexander et.c. Plutarchs Syngrammata Ethica, or in Latin, Moralia, Morals, included advice for married couples, how to distinguish true friends and bring up children, how to restrain anger et.c
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Plutarch. Plutarch was born in Life. Plutarch was the son of Aristobulus,himself a biographer and philosopher. In 6667, Plutarch
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Extractions: Plutarch was born in AD 46,, Chaeronea, Boeotia [Greece] and died after 119 Greek PLUTARCHOS, Latin PLUTARCHUS, biographer and author whose works strongly influenced the evolution of the essay, the biography, and historical writing in Europe from the 16th to the 19th century. Among his approximately 227 works, the most important are the Bioi paralleloi (Parallel Lives), in which he recounts the noble deeds and characters of Greek and Roman soldiers, legislators, orators, and statesmen, and the Moralia, or Ethica, a series of more than 60 essays on ethical, religious, physical, political, and literary topics. Life. Plutarch was the son of Aristobulus, himself a biographer and philosopher. In 66-67, Plutarch studied mathematics and philosophy at Athens under the philosopher Ammonius. Public duties later took him several times to Rome, where he lectured on philosophy, made many friends, and perhaps enjoyed the acquaintance of the emperors Trajan and Hadrian. According to the Suda lexicon (a Greek dictionary dating c. AD 1000), Trajan bestowed the high rank of an ex-consul upon him. Although this may be true, a report of a 4th-century church historian, Eusebius, that Hadrian made Plutarch governor of Greece is probably apocryphal. A Delphic inscription reveals that he possessed Roman citizenship; his nomen, or family name, Mestrius, was no doubt adopted from his friend Lucius Mestrius Florus, a Roman consul.
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Information about Plutarch, GrecoRoman historian, and links to Internetresources about him. Plutarch chronicled Plutarch. Plutarch was
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Extractions: Manufacturer's Closeouts! Books Music Classical Music DVDs VHS Video Games Electronics Software Kitchen Plutarch was born c. 45 A.D. and died c. 125 A.D. He chronicled the lives and history of the most influential people in the Greco-Roman empires as well as essays on a wide range of religious, philosophical, scientific and moral topics.
Plutarch 3
Books Cicero's De Officiis, Seneca's Moral Essays and Moral Epistles, Plutarch'sLives, Montaigne's Essays, Elyot's Governour, Spenser's Faerie Queene, James
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Extractions: Source: Plutarch of Charonea. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes Compared Together. Translated out of Greeke into French by James Amyot, Abbot of Bellozane, Bishop of Auxerre, and out of French into Englishe by Thomas North. Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-upon-Avon. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1928. Before using any portion of this text in any theme, essay, research paper, thesis, or dissertation, please read the Transcription conventions: Page numbers in angle brackets refer to this edition. The pages begin at 158 because Volume II of the Nutt edition contains the first three lives of the Shakespeare Head edition used for this segment. Words or phrases singled out for indexing are marked by plus signs. In the index, numbers in parentheses indicate how many times the item appears. I have allowed Greek passages to stand as the scanner read them, in unintelligible strings of characters. The Life of Marcus Cato+ the Censor MARCUS Cato and his auncesters, were (as they say) of the city of THUSCULUM: but before he went unto the warres, and delt in matters of the common wealth, he dwelt and lived in the contry of the SABYNES, upon certeine land his father left him. And though to many, his auncesters were knowen to have bene obscure: yet he him self did highly commende his father Marcus, by bearing his name, and saying he was a souldier, and had served valliantly in the fielde. And he telleth also of an other Cato that was his great grandfather, who for his valliant service had bene most rewarded of the generals, with such honorable giftes, as the ROMAINES did use to geve unto them, that had done some famous act in any battell: and how that he havinge lost
Plutarch - Mathematics And The Liberal Arts
Plutarch Mathematics and the Liberal Arts.
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Extractions: To expand search, see Greece . Laterally related topics: Diophantus Aristotle Archimedes Euclid ... Philolaus , and Archytas The Mathematics and the Liberal Arts pages are intended to be a resource for student research projects and for teachers interested in using the history of mathematics in their courses. Many pages focus on ethnomathematics and in the connections between mathematics and other disciplines. The notes in these pages are intended as much to evoke ideas as to indicate what the books and articles are about. They are not intended as reviews. However, some items have been reviewed in Mathematical Reviews , published by The American Mathematical Society. When the mathematical review (MR) number and reviewer are known to the author of these pages, they are given as part of the bibliographic citation. Subscribing institutions can access the more recent MR reviews online through MathSciNet Biggs, N. L. The roots of combinatorics. Historia Math. (1) As the author explains, the most ancient problem connected with combinatorics may be the house-cat-mice-wheat problem of the Rhind Papyrus (Problem 79), which occurs in a similar form in a problem of Fibonacci's
Public Life
BC (Plutarch, Life of Mark Antony 25.528.1, 29. 2nd cent. In Plutarch's accounttraditional anecdotes are related with considerable sympathy and admiration.
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Plutarch
Plutarch. b. AD 46,, Chaeronea Life. Plutarch was the son of Aristobulus,himself a biographer and philosopher. In 6667, Plutarch
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Extractions: d. after 119 Greek PLUTARCHOS, Latin PLUTARCHUS, Biographer and author whose works strongly influenced the evolution of the essay, the biography, and historical writing in Europe from the 16th to the 19th century. Among his approximately 227 works, the most important are the Bioi paralleloi (Parallel Lives), in which he recounts the noble deeds and characters of Greek and Roman soldiers, legislators, orators, and statesmen, and the Moralia, or Ethica, a series of more than 60 essays on ethical, religious, physical, political, and literary topics. Life Plutarch was the son of Aristobulus, himself a biographer and philosopher. In 66-67, Plutarch studied mathematics and philosophy at Athens under the philosopher Ammonius. Public duties later took him several times to Rome, where he lectured on philosophy, made many friends, and perhaps enjoyed the acquaintance of the emperors Trajan and Hadrian. According to the Suda lexicon (a Greek dictionary dating c. AD 1000), Trajan bestowed the high rank of an ex-consul upon him. Although this may be true, a report of a 4th-century church historian, Eusebius, that Hadrian made Plutarch governor of Greece is probably apocryphal. A Delphic inscription reveals that he possessed Roman citizenship; his nomen, or family name, Mestrius, was no doubt adopted from his friend Lucius Mestrius Florus, a Roman consul. Plutarch traveled widely, visiting central Greece, Sparta, Corinth, Patrae (Patras), Sardis, and Alexandria, but he made his normal residence at Chaeronea, where he held the chief magistracy and other municipal posts and directed a school with a wide curriculum in which philosophy, especially ethics, occupied the central place. He maintained close links with the Academy at Athens (he possessed Athenian citizenship) and with Delphi, where, from about 95, he held a priesthood for life; he may have won Trajan's interest and support for the then-renewed vogue of the oracle. The size of Plutarch's family is uncertain. In the Consolatio to his wife, Timoxena, on the death of their infant daughter, he mentions four sons; of these at least two survived childhood, and he may have had other children.
The Dying God
Plutarch. On Isis and Osiris, XLV XLVII. There are some who givethe name Typhon to the earths shadow, into which they believe
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Extractions: But there is some commingling, which is well. Such then, is the character of the mythology of the Magi. The Chaldeans declare that of the planets, which they call tutelary gods, two are beneficent, two maleficent, and the other three are median and partake of both qualities. The beliefs of the Greeks are well known to all; they make the good part belong to Olympian Zeus and the abominated part to Hades, and they rehearse a legend that Concord is sprung from Aphrodite and Ares, the one of whom is harsh and contentious, and the other mild and tutelary.
Ancient History Sourcebook: Plutarch: The Training Of Children, C. 110 CE
Back to Ancient History Sourcebook . Ancient History Sourcebook PlutarchThe Training of Children, c. 110 CE. Thatcher Introduction
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Extractions: The Training of Children, c. 110 CE [Thatcher Introduction]: Plutarch was born of a wealthy family in Boeotia at Chaeronea about 50 A.D. Part of his life seems to have been spent at Rome, but he seems to have returned to Greece and died there about 120 A.D. But little further is know of his life. He was one of the greatest biographers the world has ever known, while his moral essays show wide learning and considerable depth of contemplation. THE COURSE that ought to be taken for the training of freeborn children, and the means whereby their manners may be rendered virtuous, will, with the reader's leave, be the subject of our present disquisition. In the management of which, perhaps it may be expedient to take our rise from their very procreation. I would therefore, in the first place, advise those who desire to become the parents of famous and eminent children, that they keep not company with all women that they light on; I mean such as harlots, or concubines. For such children as are blemished in their birth, either by the father's or the mother's side, are liable to be pursued, as long as they live, with the indelible infamy of their base extraction, as that which offers a ready occasion to all that desire to take hold of it of reproaching and disgracing them therewith. Misfortune on that family's entailed
Ancient History Sourcebook: Plutarch: Selections From The Life Of Alexander
Ancient History Sourcebook Plutarch Selections from the Life of Alexander.Plutarch, a Roman historian who lived during the first century AD (ca.
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Extractions: Plutarch: Selections from the Life of Alexander Plutarch, a Roman historian who lived during the first century AD (ca. 46-119), wrote his Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans intending to draw parallels between great figures of Greek antiquity and Romans of his own time. He chose to compare Alexander the Great with Julius Caesar. In his Life of Alexander, Plutarch tells some of the most famous stories related about Alexander. Questions: 2. What, in Plutarch's opinion, makes a "great man"? Is Alexander great? Upon this all the company laughed, but the king and prince agreeing as to the forfeiture, Alexander ran to the horse, and laying hold on the bridle, turned him to the sun; for he had observed, it seems, that the shadow which fell before the horse, and continually moved as he moved, greatly disturbed him. While his fierceness and fury abated, he kept speaking to him softly and stroking him; after which he gently let fall his mantle, leaped lightly upon his back, and got his seat very safe. Then, without pulling the reins too hard, or using either whip or spur, he set him a-going. As soon as he perceived his uneasiness abated, and that he wanted only to run, he put him in a full gallop, and pushed him on both with the voice and spur. Philip and all his court were in great distress for him at first, and a profound silence took place. But when the prince had turned him and brought him straight back, they all received him with loud acclamations, except his father, who wept for joy, and kissing him, said, "Seek another kingdom, my son, that may be worthy of thy abilities; for Macedonia is too small for thee..."
Sage And Emperor Plutarch And Trajan
SAGE AND EMPEROR Plutarch AND TRAJAN. The Department of Classics ofthe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in conjunction
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Plutarch To Reese
Plutarch to Reese. Plutarch Aemilius Paulus; Plutarch Agesilaus;Plutarch Agis; Plutarch Alcibiades; Plutarch Alexander; Plutarch
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