41. Ancient Rome - Plutarch Plutarch was the son of Aristobulus, himself a biographer and philosopher. In 6667, Plutarch studied mathematics and philosophy at Athens under the http://www.crystalinks.com/plutarch.html

PLUTARCH 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.

42. Plutarch - Wikiquote Plutarch (c.45c.120). Mestrius Plutarchos, Greek historian, biographer and essayist. Retrieved from http//en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Plutarch http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Plutarch

You did it! Over US$240,000 was donated in the 21 day fund drive. Thank you for your generosity! You are still welcome to make a donation or purchase Wikimedia merchandise Plutarch From Wikiquote edit Plutarch (c.45-c.120) Mestrius Plutarchos , Greek historian, biographer and essayist. edit Attributed "The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." "Pompey had fought brilliantly and in the end routed Caesar's whole force... but either he was unable to or else he feared to push on. Caesar [said] to his friends: 'Today the enemy would have won, if they had had a commander who was a winner.'" (The Life of Pompey) "Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends." "A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, ' Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?' holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. 'Yet,' added he, 'none of you can tell where it pinches me.' " "The abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and money began to play an important part in determining elections." (The Roman Republic) Wikiquote links: People Proverbs Films TV Shows ... Categories Retrieved from " http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Plutarch

43. Plutarch --  Encyclopædia Britannica Plutarch biographer and author whose works strongly influenced the evolution of the essay, the biography, and historical writing in Europe from the 16th to http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9060464

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44. The Internet Classics Archive | Browse All of the classic biographies of heroes and villains from ancient Greece and Rome. The English text is awkward and antiquated, but it's the complete Dryden edition (1683), as revised by A.H. Clough (1864). http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/index-Plutarch.html

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45. Plutarch --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia Plutarch (46?–120?). No historian of ancient times has been more widely read or has had more influence than the keeneyed essayist and biographer Plutarch. http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article?tocId=9276469

46. Malaspina Great Books - Plutarch (45 CE) Plutarch travelled widely in the Mediterranean world until he returned to Boeotia, But Plutarch must have had access to a great store of books, http://www.malaspina.com/site/person_942.asp

47. LacusCurtius • Plutarch — Life Of Alexander Entry page to an English translation of the entire work, part of a site including several other ancient works, in turn part of a large site on ancient Rome http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Alexander*/home

mail: Bill Thayer Italiano Help Up Home This webpage reproduces one of The Parallel Lives by Plutarch published in the Loeb Classical Library, the text of which is in the public domain. This page has been carefully proofread and I believe it to be free of errors. If you find a mistake though, please let me know! Roman Parallel: Caesar Plutarch: Life of Alexander The E at Delphi, Oracles no Longer Plutarch's Sources Since Plutarch wrote around 100 A.D. , over 400 years after Alexander, he can hardly be considered a primary source. At the same time time, he appears to have been very careful in his research, and may be the best source now extant. For the details, see the Plutarch section of Jona Lendering's excellent multi-page analysis of the sources for the life of Alexander, to which I would only add one further source not mentioned in that essay, the only one that Plutarch himself specifically cites, are actual letters of Alexander and Olympias ( III III III III ... VIII ; and a number of less direct references): whether these letters are real or fictional, whether cited first-hand or from an intermediate source, is a matter of judgment and scholarship. The Text on LacusCurtius Qui scribit, bis legit.

48. Perseus Encyclopedia With bibliography, from the Perseus Project. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0004&que

49. Plutarch • Life Of Caesar An English translation. Part of a site including several other ancient works, in turn part of a large site on ancient Rome and central Italy. http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Caesar*.html

mail: Bill Thayer Italiano Help Up Home Greek Parallel: Alexander This webpage reproduces one of The Parallel Lives by Plutarch published in the Loeb Classical Library, the text of which is in the public domain. This page has been carefully proofread and I believe it to be free of errors. If you find a mistake though, please let me know! Plutarch, The Parallel Lives The Life of Julius Caesar The wife of Caesar was Cornelia, the daughter of the Cinna who had once held the sole power at Rome, and when Sulla became master of affairs, he could not, either by promises or threats, induce Caesar to put her away, and therefore confiscated her dowry. Now, the reason for Caesar's hatred of Sulla was Caesar's relationship to Marius. For Julia, a sister of Caesar's father, was the wife of Marius the Elder, and the mother of Marius the Younger, who was therefore Caesar's cousin. Moreover, Caesar was not satisfied to be overlooked at first by Sulla, who was busy with a multitude of proscriptions, but he came before the people as candidate for the priesthood, although he was not yet much more than a stripling. To this candidacy Sulla secretly opposed himself, and took measures to make Caesar fail in it, and when he was deliberating about putting him to death and some said there was no reason for killing a mere boy like him, he declared that they had no sense if they did not see in this boy many Mariuses.

50. Lives Of Famous Greeks And Romans, By Plutarch English translation of Plutarch s Lives, by John Dryden, revised by Clough 1864. http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_text_plutarch.htm

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51. Plutarch's Life Of Numa Pompilius Plutarch s biography of the Roman king, Numa Pompilius. http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_text_plutarch_numa.htm

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52. Project Gutenberg Edition Of Plutarch's Lives ("Dryden" Translation) Plutarch s Lives ( Dryden translation). by Plutarch. edited by Arthur Hugh Clough Project Gutenberg Release 674 (October 1996) http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=674

53. Cicero By Plutarch Read classic literature including Cicero by Plutarch at 4literature.net. http://www.4literature.net/Plutarch/Cicero/

Books [ Titles Authors Articles Front Page ... FAQ Cicero by Plutarch Buy more than 2,000 books on a single CD-ROM for only $19.99. That's less then a penny per book! Click here for more information. Read, write, or comment on essays about Cicero Search for books Search essays 75 AD CICERO 106-43 B.C. by Plutarch translated by John Dryden CICERO - IT is generally said, that Helvia, the mother of Cicero, was both well-born and lived a fair life; but of his father nothing is reported but in extremes. For whilst some would have him the son of a fuller, and educated in that trade, others carry back the origin of his family to Tullus Attius, an illustrious king of the Volscians, who waged war not without honour against the Romans. However, he who first of that house was surnamed Cicero seems to have been a person worthy to be remembered; since those who succeeded him not only did not reject, but were fond of that name, though vulgarly made a matter of reproach. For the Latins call a vetch Cicer, and a nick or dent at the tip of his nose, which resembled the opening in a vetch, gave him the surname of Cicero. Cicero, whose story I am writing, is said to have replied with spirit to some of his friends, who recommended him to lay aside or change the name when he first stood for office and engaged in politics, that he would make it his endeavour to render the name of Cicero more glorious than that of the Scauri and Catuli. And when he was quaestor in Sicily, and was making an offering of silver plate to the gods, and had inscribed his two names, Marcus and Tullius, instead of the third, he jestingly told the artificer to engrave the figure of a vetch by them. Thus much is told us about his name.

54. The Total Solar Eclipse Described By Plutarch In Plutarch s dialogue, the eclipse is the basis of an intellectual if somewhat Another important point arises from Plutarch s claim that the eclipse http://www.dur.ac.uk/Classics/histos/1998/stephenson.html

The Total Solar Eclipse Described by Plutarch F.R. Stephenson and L.J. Fatoohi (Department of Physics, University of Durham) Introduction In his dialogue On the face on the moon , the Greek biographer, historian and philosopher, Plutarch (ca. A.D. 45-120), gives a vivid description of a major eclipse of the sun. On the not unreasonable assumption that this description refers to a real historical observation of an eclipse which was fully total, there have been several attempts to date the event by astronomical calculation: notably those by Ginzel , Fotheringham and Sandbach . Dates that have been proposed range from A.D. 71 to 83, all in the early part of Plutarch's life. The Loeb editors give a useful survey of the debate. Several decades have now elapsed since the dating of the eclipse was last considered in detail. Recent studies of earth's past rotation enable the exact dates and fairly precise local circumstances (e.g. magnitudes and local times) for all eclipses in a selected period and at a given place to be computed. In the light of this new research, it seems appropriate to reconsider the eclipse which Plutarch mentions in the De facie . It will here be argued that the eclipse of March 20, 71, is by far the most likely of the various possibilities and is indeed virtually certain; the investigation should also put the exact nature of the eclipse beyond doubt, vindicate Plutarch's description as (by classical standards) an extremely accurate observation rather than a mere literary construction, and (hence) provide us with a fixed point (one of the very few fixed points) of Plutarch's own biography.

55. Plutarch's Pyrrhus And Euripides' Phoenician Women In what follows I shall argue that Plutarch s use of the Phoenician Women in his Pyrrhus key trait in Plutarch s Life is his pleonexia it is this that http://www.dur.ac.uk/Classics/histos/1997/braund.html

Plutarch's Pyrrhus and Euripides' Phoenician Women : Biography and Tragedy on Pleonectic Parenting David Braund (University of Exeter) The principal concern of this paper is to explore the relevance of Euripides' Phoenician Women to Plutarch's Life of Pyrrhus. It will be argued that the relevance of the play is much more substantial than usually acknowledged: that its relevance goes beyond the two direct quotations from the play which occur in the Life . It is worth stressing at the outset that of the five quotations from the play in Plutarch's extant Lives as a whole, two are in the Pyrrhus : that may plausibly be claimed as a concentration ( Pyrrh. 9 and 14; cf. Demetr Sull Comp. Nic.-Crass . 4). In what follows, I shall attempt to explain how and why the play matters to a reading of the Life . The essence of my claim is that the reader's knowledge of Euripides' play is made to provide what may be termed "added value" to Plutarch's Life , with the further validation of Euripidean authority. The general relevance to Plutarch's Lives of Athenian tragedy (and indeed of Homeric epic) has long been recognised. And Judith Mossman has explored tragic and epic elements in the

56. Bucephalus , Plutarch Bucephalus, Plutarch. Philonicus the Thessalian brought the horse Bucephalus to Philip, offering to sell him for thirteen talents; but when they went into http://www.1stmuse.com/alex3/bucephalus.html

Bucephalus, Plutarch Return to index. Send remarks or suggestions to: John J. Popovic

57. Alexander In Egypt, Plutarch Alexander in Egypt, Plutarch. This is attested by many credible authors, and if what those of Alexandria tell us, relying upon the authority of Heraclides, http://www.1stmuse.com/alex3/egypt.html

Alexander in Egypt , Plutarch This is attested by many credible authors, and if what those of Alexandria tell us, relying upon the authority of Heraclides, be true, Homer was neither an idle nor an unprofitable companion to him in his expedition. For when he was master of Egypt, designing to settle a colony of Grecians there, he resolved to build a large and populous city, and give it his own name. In order to which, after he had measured and staked out the ground with the advice of the best architects, he chanced one night in his sleep to see a wonderful vision; a grey-headed old man, of a venerable aspect, appeared to stand by him, and pronounce these verses:- "An island lies, where loud the billows roar, Pharos they call it, on the Egyptian shore." Return Send remarks or suggestions to: John J. Popovic

58. 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, and of Caesar, http://faq.macedonia.org/history/alexander.plutarch.html

Alexander (died B.C.E.) By Plutarch Written A.C.E. 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.

59. Plutarch: A Who2 Profile 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 http://www.who2.com/plutarch.html

PLUTARCH Writer 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. Extra credit : Plutarch was for many years a priest at the famous oracle at Delphi. Plutarch earns a brief mention in our loop Seven Horses of Highly Effective People Other famous historians include Herodotus Barbara Tuchman Pliny the Elder and Thomas Carlyle Chaironeia: Plutarch's Home on the Web Brief but solid list of links to Plutarch, including where to find his texts online

60. Ancient History Sourcebook: Plutarch: The Training Of Children, C. 110 CE Plutarch was born of a wealthy family in Boeotia at Chaeronea about 50 AD Part of his life seems to have been spent at Rome, but he seems to have returned http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/plutarch-education.html

Back to Ancient History Sourcebook Ancient History Sourcebook: Plutarch: 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

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