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Plutarch (/ˈpluːtɑːrk/; Ancient Greek: Πλούταρχος, Ploútarchos, Koine Greek: [ˈplúːtarkʰos]; before CE 50 – after 120) was a Greek and later Roman Middle...

Pseudo-Plutarch is the conventional name given to the actual, but unknown, authors of a number of pseudepigrapha attributed to Plutarch but now known not...

Look up Plutarch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Plutarch of Chaeronea (c. 46–120) was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist...

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

Plutarch of Athens (Greek: Πλούταρχος ὁ Ἀθηναῖος; c. 350 – 430 AD) was a Greek Neoplatonic philosopher who taught in Athens at the beginning of the 5th...

('Aphrodite of all the People') on the southern slope of the Acropolis. Plutarch's Life of Theseus makes use of varying accounts of the death of the Minotaur...

Green 2007, pp. 15–16. Plutarch 1919, V, 2 Green 2007, p. 4. Plutarch 1919, IV, 4 Arrian 1976, VII, 29 Plutarch 1919, VII, 1 Plutarch 1919, VIII, 1 Arrian...

Servile War, also called the Gladiator War and the War of Spartacus by Plutarch, was the last in a series of slave rebellions against the Roman Republic...

accounts of his life come primarily from Plutarch and Appian, who wrote more than a century after his death. Plutarch's Life of Crassus and Appian's Civil Wars...

Plutarch of Byzantium (Ancient Greek: Πλούταρχος; died 105) served as Bishop of Byzantium for sixteen years (89 – 105) in succession to Polycarpus I of...

Plutarch (Ancient Greek: Πλούταρχος; fl. 4th century BC) was a tyrant of Eretria in Euboea. Whether he was the immediate successor of Themison, and also...

The Plutarch Award, established in 2013, is an annual literary award for biographies presented by the Biographers International Organization. It is named...

AD by the Greek moralist Plutarch, as part of his Parallel Lives. In this book comparing Greek and Roman statesmen, Plutarch paired Caesar with Alexander...

being solid. The passage of Plutarch has created some controversy. W. Hamilton indicated the similarities of Plutarch's account on "the great continent"...

Coronea (447 BC), Pericles and Ariphron became his guardians. According to Plutarch, Alcibiades had several famous teachers, including Socrates, and was well...

479–323 BC, 33–34. Plutarch, Pericles, XVI. Plutarch, Pericles, VII. Plutarch, Pericles, IX. Aristotle, Constitution of Athens, 27. Plutarch, Cimon, XV. Samons...

(PDF). Hirundo. 8: 23. Plutarch, Parallel Lives, Life of Crassus, 4.1 Plutarch, Parallel Lives, Life of Crassus, 6.1 Plutarch, Parallel Lives, Life of...

missing publisher (link) Plutarch (1891), Bernardakis, Gregorius N. (ed.), Moralia, Plutarch (in Greek), Leipzig: Teubner Plutarch (2005), Richard J.A. Talbert...

century BC. Ancient authors such as Philo of Alexandria, Herodotus, and Plutarch are the main sources, but wrote about Solon long after his death. Fourth-century...

in the Classical period. Turcan notes that Plutarch makes of Arimanius "a sort of tenebrous Pluto". Plutarch, however, names the Greek god as Hades, not...

the Achaean, and of Stilpo. He lived a life of cheerful simplicity, and Plutarch, who wrote a detailed biography of Crates which does not survive, records...

Sources often contradict one another. They include the histories of Livy, Plutarch, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and Tacitus as well as the work of Virgil...

After his victory against the Romans in the Battle of Asculum in 279 BC, Plutarch reports that Pyrrhus exclaimed "One more victory over the Romans and we...

was already married to him when she eloped with Theseus. According to Plutarch, Paion the Amathusian recounted Theseus accidentally abandoned Ariadne...

engineer, known for having allowed the Lydian army to cross the Halys River. Plutarch wrote that "at that time, Thales alone had raised philosophy from mere...

Phlegyas, pp. 367–368. Pseudo-Plutarch, On Rivers, 3.2. Apollodorus, 1.7.7; Brill's New Pauly, s.v. Thestius. Pseudo-Plutarch, On Rivers, 22.1. Apollodorus...

Charmian, was a trusted servant and advisor to Cleopatra VII of Egypt. Plutarch, in his Parallel Lives biography of Mark Antony, writes that Charmion managed...

xlix. 44.1-4; li. 16.2; Plutarch, Antony 53.12 Cassius Dio li. 21.8 Plutarch, Antony 87.1; Suetonius, Augustus 17.5 Plutarch, Antony 81.1 - 82.1; 87.1;...

117; Anderson 1970, pp. 210–213; Plutarch, Pelopidas 23.2–3. Dahm 2021, p. 117; Plutarch, Pelopidas 23.3. Plutarch, Pelopidas 23.4. The History of the...

from a misreading of Plutarch's Life of Demetrius which is about Demetrius Poliorcetes and not Demetrius of Phalereus. Plutarch describes in the work...

philosopher Plutarch. He appears as a character in several of Plutarch's works, notably the Table Talks. He is also mentioned in Plutarch's Life of Antony...

Themistocles, 23. Plutarch, Themistocles, 24. Diodorus XI, 56. Plutarch, Themistocles, 25. Thucydides I, 137. Plutarch, Themistocles 26. Plutarch, Themistocles...

be located in Alexandria, Egypt. According to historians Suetonius and Plutarch, the Roman leader Octavian permitted their burial together after he had...

the cult of Romulus, and the office of pontifex maximus. According to Plutarch, Numa was the youngest of Pomponius's four sons, born on the day of Rome's...

in Plutarch: Moralising Agents and Contexts is a 2016 monograph by Greek-Cypriot author and academic Sophia Xenophontos that delves into Plutarch's concept...

In Greek mythology, according to Plutarch, the 7th century BC Greek poet Alcman said that Ersa /ˈɜːrsə/ or Herse /ˈhɜːrsiː/ (Ἔρσα, Érsa, Ἕρση, Hérsē, literally...

pp. 35–36. Champion 2009, p. 37. Plutarch, Parallel Lives, "Life of Pyrrhus" 12 (ed. Clough 1859; ed. Loeb). Plutarch, Parallel Lives, "Life of Demetrius"...

Scott-Kilvert, Ian (1965). Plutarch: Makers of Rome. Penguin Group. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-14-044158-1. Plutarch. "Plutarch • Life of Fabius Maximus (Cunctator)"...

sections of Plutarch who describes him as the dark or evil side in a dualistic opposition with Oromazes (for Ohrmuzd or Ahura Mazda). However, Plutarch was specifically...

Akademeia. It had also earlier been called Ecademia (Ἑκαδημία). According to Plutarch, Cimon converted this, "waterless and arid spot into a well watered grove...

History: Book 40, 22.3. Plutarch. Life of Crassus, 25.1. Plutarch. Life of Crassus, 25.7–12. Plutarch. Life of Crassus, 28.1. Plutarch. Life of Crassus, 28...

he drew his sword and sliced it in half with a single stroke. However, Plutarch and Arrian relate that, according to Aristobulus, Alexander pulled the...

provinces of Ambracia, Acarnania, and Amfilochia. Demetrius, according to Plutarch, arrived after Pyrrhus had retired, and when matters had been settled between...

historical writings of Sallust. Later biographies of Caesar by Suetonius and Plutarch are also important sources. Caesar is considered by many historians to...

Two children are attributed to Romulus in Plutarch: a daughter, Prima, and a son, Avillius, but here Plutarch notes that his source, Zenodotus of Troezen...

III thirty years later. Plutarch & Scott-Kilvert 1973, 13–15. Plutarch & Scott-Kilvert 1973, 16-7; Wylie 1999, p. 306. Plutarch & Scott-Kilvert 1973, 17;...

Plutarch's Staff is the 23rd adventure in the Blake and Mortimer series. It was written by Yves Sente and drawn by André Juillard and Étienne Schréder...

2025. Plutarch. "Life of Otho". Parallel Lives. 11-14. Retrieved 3 September 2025. Tacitus. Histories. 2.39-44. Retrieved 3 September 2025. Plutarch. "Life...

Plutarch is an unincorporated community located in Magoffin County, Kentucky, United States. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System:...

by Pliny, Plutarch, and Horace. Both Pliny and Plutarch tell that her rites were carried out by the sacrifice of a puppy or a bitch. Plutarch alone has...

remain the same ship. The account of the problem has been preserved by Plutarch in his Life of Theseus: The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens...

antiquity, Chronos was occasionally interpreted as Cronus. According to Plutarch, the Greeks believed that Cronus was an allegorical name for Chronos. In...

Greek σκάφη, meaning "boat"), also known as the boats, is reported by Plutarch in his Life of Artaxerxes, citing Ctesias, as an ancient Persian method...

The only full description of the battle available is in Plutarch's Life of Demetrius. Plutarch was writing some 400 years after the events in question...

p. 111. classics.mit.edu: Plutarch – "Life of Brutus". Strauss 2015, pp. 120–121. Strauss 2015, p. 122. Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. Translated by Bernadotte...

laconism involving Philip II of Macedon was reported by the historian Plutarch. After invading southern Greece and receiving the submission of other key...

place. It is told again a century later by Plutarch, though in a shortened version. Both Vitruvius's and Plutarch's accounts suggest that the legend was already...

the first Ptolemaic ruler known to have learned the Egyptian language. Plutarch implies that she also spoke Ethiopian, the language of the "Troglodytes"...

for three generations had been named Marcus Porcius, and it was said by Plutarch that at first he was known by the additional cognomen Priscus, but was...

and the boys were encouraged to use violence against each other; by Plutarch's account, this included sexual violence by hēbōntes against paides, while...

modern Turkey) in a place Plutarch locates as being situated between Beirut and Sidon, called Light, an unwalled village. If Plutarch is to be believed, Ptolemy...

philosopher Plutarch, in his treatise Against Colotes attributes this position to Colotes, an Epicurean philosopher from the Hellenistic period. Plutarch, who...

Plutarch. Life of Coriolanus. B87. Plutarch. On Hearing. B88. Plutarch. Consolation to Apollonius. B89. Plutarch. On Superstition. B90-91. Plutarch....

the war is Plutarch's Life of Pyrrhus, which was written around AD 100 as a moralising biography to explore Pyrrhus' character. Plutarch, problematically...

defiance, it is among the Laconic phrases reported by the Greek historian Plutarch, and is said to have been Leonidas's response to Xerxes's demand that the...

ISBN 978-0-8061-3143-6. Plutarch, Demosthenes, 29. Archived 20 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine Pseudo-Plutarch, Demosthenes, 847d. Plutarch, Demosthenes, 13...

this battle only by three ancient historians: Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Plutarch, and Cassius Dio, although these historians in turn reference other historians...

est ([ˈjakta ˈaːlɛ.a ˈɛs̺t]), which has the same English translation. Plutarch states that Caesar was speaking in Greek: ἀνερρίφθω κύβος (anerrhī́phthō...

over Pericles; this approach was also adopted by the Roman-era biographer Plutarch. Ancient philosophical writers portrayed her as a skilled rhetorician and...

cognomen, a hereditary nickname, comes from the Latin for chickpea (cicer). Plutarch explains that the name was originally given to one of Cicero's ancestors...

traitors - Brutus, Cassius, and Judas." Plutarch, Brutus, 9.1-4 Appian, Civil Wars, 4.67. Plutarch, Brutus, 14.4 Plutarch, Crassus, 18 "Battle of Carrhae"....

3. Plutarch, Life of Caesar, 14; Pompey, 48; Cato the Younger, 31. Suetonius, Life of Julius Caesar, 50. Plutarch, Life of Pompey, 48. Plutarch, Life...

12.25 Arrian 7.14.11 Arrian 7.13 Plutarch, Eumenes 2 Plutarch 47 Curtius 10.15.20 Arrian 7.4.29 Arrian 7.14.3 Plutarch 72.2 Renault p 209 Worthington,...

underground rebellion organised by the supposedly destroyed District 13 and Plutarch Heavensbee. In the third installment, she is caught in a love triangle...

recognized at Sicyon, as remarked by Plutarch. Her name literally means "much knowledge, erudition", and Plutarch compares her to Polymnia to whom he ascribes...

Ἠθικά, Ethiká) is a set of essays ascribed to the 1st-century scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea. The eclectic collection contains 78 essays and transcribed...

years before his birth, did the town receive full citizenship. Although Plutarch claims that Marius's father was a labourer, this is almost certainly false...

the writings of Xenophon, Thucydides, Herodotus and Plutarch, none of whom were Spartans. Plutarch was writing several centuries after the period of Spartan...

Turkey). The phrase is attributed in Plutarch's Life of Caesar and Suetonius's Lives of the Twelve Caesars: Julius. Plutarch writes that Caesar used it in a...

Greek: Ἀλεξικράτης) was a Pythagorean philosopher who lived at the time of Plutarch (that is, around the turn of the 1st century AD), and whose disciples continued...

and Seth", and much later, in the narratives of Greek authors including Plutarch and Diodorus Siculus. Osiris is a Latin transliteration of the Ancient...

p. 277 Pausanias, 5.8.3 Archived 19 March 2022 at the Wayback Machine; Plutarch, Moralia - How the Young Man Should Study Poetry, 12 Homer, Odyssey, 11...

interested in philosophy, and was "full of an understanding courage." Plutarch describes her as being prime of youth and beauty. When she was still very...

Jallet-Huant, 2009, pp. 39–40 Plutarch, Antony, 8 Broughton, p. 281 Holmes, p. 127 Holmes, p. 128 Plutarch, Antony, 10 Plutarch, Pompey, 65 Davis, 1999, p...

catastrophe. Plato's dialogue does not mention a name for the priest, but Plutarch (46–120 AD), in his Life of Solon identified the aged priest as Sonchis:...

or the Greek Περὶ ποταμῶν καὶ ὀρῶν ἐπωνυμίας, is a Greek text by Pseudo-Plutarch written during the 2nd century CE. It discusses twenty-five rivers in Greece...

Alexander is reported to have treated them with great respect. According to Plutarch, Stateira died giving birth to a son, Ochus, in early 332 BC. She was given...

treated in the Life of Caesar. Plutarch was born c. 46 CE, approximately 130 years after the events he describes. Plutarch's account is known to be based...

Xenophon's Constitution of the Lacedaemonians makes no mention of it. Plutarch and Heraclides Lembus, both of whom may be using a lost work by Aristotle...

A15. Aristotle. Metaphysics. Bekker 1399b. A16. Plutarch. "On Compliancy". Moralia. 530e. A17. Plutarch. "On Common Conceptions against the Stoics". Moralia...

many men were targeted. Hinard 1985, pp. 266–269, reviews the evidence. Plutarch in three different lives – Brutus (27.6), Cicero (46.2), and Antony (20...

historian and biographer Plutarch describes Spartacus as "a Thracian of nomadic stock," in a possible reference to the Maedi. Plutarch also says that Spartacus'...

and they allotted a punishment to those controlling them if they failed. Plutarch also states that Spartans treated the Helots "harshly and cruelly": they...

Iphicles and Automedusa, daughter of King Alcathous of Megara. According to Plutarch, Heracles gave his wife, Megara, age thirty three, to Iolaus, then only...

her marriages. Plutarch describes her as one of the "most nobly born and admirable women of her time". The following clause from Plutarch describes her...

Περί του Σωκράτους δαιμονίου Perí tou Sōkrátous daimoníou) is a work by Plutarch, part of his collection of works entitled Moralia. The title refers to...

was a common soldier in the army of Alexander the Great. According to Plutarch, citing Chares of Mytilene, Promachus drank the equivalent of 13 litres...

CITEREFLaërtius (help) Laërtius, § 37. sfn error: no target: CITEREFLaërtius (help) Plutarch, de Stoicor. repugn, p. 1034; comp. Laërtius, § 12 harvnb error: no target:...

In this work, Plutarch draws parallels between Egyptian and Greek deities.The early Egyptologist E. A. Wallis Budge argued that Plutarch's description of...

Sthenele, daughter of Acastus and lastly (3) Periopis, daughter of Pheres Plutarch, Aristides 20.6 Homer, Iliad 23.85 ff. Homer, Iliad 11.785, 16.14. Miate...

 19–20. Plutarch, de Gen. Socr, p. 419, §583a. Iamblichus, Vit. Pyth, §255–§259; Porphyry, Vit. Pyth, §54–§57; Diog VIII, §1.39; comp. Plutarch, de Gen...

120; Orphic Argonautica 646 (Vian, p. 120). Pausanias, 10.6.4 Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis 24 Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Aōros Apollodorus,...

Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Vatia (also called Lentulus Batiatus by Plutarch) was the Roman owner of a gladiatorial school in ancient Capua. It was from...

pounds (330 kg)) of gold, and the Romans agreed to his terms. According to Plutarch's Life of Camillus and Livy's Ab Urbe Condita (Book 5 Sections 34–49), the...

Wars, 94. Plutarch, Life of Pompey, 26.2. Plutarch, Life of Pompey, 24.4-5. Appian, Mithridatic Wars, 96. Plutarch, Life of Pompey, 45.2. Plutarch, Life of...

believed that his masters were Hegias and Ageladas.[better source needed] Plutarch discusses Phidias's friendship with the Greek statesman Pericles, recording...

ISBN 978-0-14-139076-5. Plutarch (1919). Perrin, Bernadotte (ed.). Plutarch, Alexander. Perseus Project. Retrieved 6 December 2011. Plutarch (1936). Babbitt,...

former lieutenant, likewise attempted to conquer the Parthian Empire. Plutarch also claims that once Parthia had been subdued, the army was to continue...

510-450 BC) was a noblewoman of classical Athens. She is known from Plutarch's Life of Cimon, as well as Life of Pericles where she appears twice in...

called it a "battle of mice" (Ancient Greek: μυομαχίᾱ), according to Plutarch. In the autumn of 333 BC, the Spartan King Agis III had met with the Persian...

ostraka would be banished, provided that a quorum was met. According to Plutarch, the ostracism was considered valid if the total number of votes cast was...

by Plutarch in refutation of it: "That it is impossible even to live pleasantly according to Epicurus", and Against Colotes. According to Plutarch, Colotes...

or daemon of stupidity, found in a play by Aristophanes and a book by Plutarch. An ancient, unsupported false etymology derives κοάλεμος from κοέω (koeō)...

 142. Plutarch, Life of Crassus, 11.7 Plutarch, Parallel Lives, Life of Pompey, 21.2. Crawford 1974, pp. 412–413. Livy, Periochae, 97.6 Plutarch, Life...

Herodotus, Julian, Justin, Livy, Lucan, Nepos, Ovid, Pausanias, Pindar, Plato, Plutarch, Sophocles, Strabo, Thucydides, and Xenophon. Nevertheless, details of...

2025. Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica Plut. Apoph. 51.2. and Moralia, 240 E (6). Herodotus VII, 209. Plutarch, Moralia, 225, saying 10. Plutarch, Apophthegmata...

the ancestor of Olympias, mother to Alexander the Great. According to Plutarch, Neoptolemus was also the ancestor of Pyrrhus of Epirus. In Philostratus...

of Publius Clodius Pulcher, as governor of Cyprus in 58. According to Plutarch, Brutus was instrumental in assisting the administration of the province...

have lived in the 1st century CE, mentioned only by Plutarch (Sympos. i. 10, 3, ii. 2). Plutarch (Symposiacs i. 10, 3, ii. 2)  This article incorporates...

desert his beloved or fail him in the hour of danger? — Plato, Symposium Plutarch (46–120 AD), a native of the village of Chaeronea, is the source of the...

perseus.tufts.edu. Retrieved 2023-02-27. Plutarch (1914). Plutarch's Lives Romulus. doi:10.4159/DLCL.plutarch-lives_romulus.1914. Retrieved 7 November...

10 Plutarch, Alexander, 2.1 "Olympias | Macedonian leader". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2018-01-29. Plutarch, Alexander, 2.2–2.3 Plutarch, Alexander...

ancient Greece who is said to have been married fourteen times. According to Plutarch, she was born in Ionia and "made her onslaughts upon the most influential...

gospel itself is anonymous, as it was common for ancient biographers (ex. Plutarch) to not name their authors. The authorship of Mark and connection to Peter...

1988, p. 266. Plutarch 1973, 30; Hammond 1988, p. 266. Plutarch 1973, 30; Wylie 1999, p. 312. Plutarch 1973, 30. Plutarch 1973, 31. Plutarch 1973, 31; Hammond...

ISBN 0520234308. Plutarch, Erotikos, 761d.The tomb of Iolaus is also mentioned by Pindar. Pindar, Olympian Odes, 9.98–99. Plutarch, Erotikos, 761e. Christopher...

Plutarch. Life of Lysander. §12. A13.Plutarch. Life of Pericles. §16. A15. Plato. Phaedrus. 270a. A16. Plutarch. Life of Pericles. §6. A17. Plutarch....

Hellenica. 2.3.10 Plutarch. Ages. 32.1 Thucydides 1.87.1–2 Thucydides 1.114.3 Plutarch. Per. 22 Xenophon, Hellenica. 3.4.10 Plutarch. Agis. 5.3–5 van Wees...

Saints Plutarch, Serenus, Heraclides, Heron, Serenus, Rhais, Potamiœna and Marcella (died between 202–205 AD) were Christian martyrs in Egypt under the...

the Peacekeepers. District 12's cruel tribute escort Drusilla Sickle and Plutarch Heavensbee, a cameraman who appears sympathetic to the tributes, then appoint...

ensouled being, the World-Soul. Pre-eminence in this period belongs to Plutarch. The eclectic nature of Platonism during this time is shown by its incorporation...

the ancient historians Arrian, Plutarch and Diodorus Siculus. Arrian's account is the longest and most detailed; Plutarch's account is shorter but corresponds...

Plutarch, "The Life of Caesar", 13, 14; "The Life of Pompeius", 47. Appian, "Bellum Civile", ii. 14. Plutarch, "The Life of Caesar", 23, 28. Plutarch...

Julian Libanius Lucian Pausanias Philostratus Phlegon of Tralles Photius Plutarch Polyaenus Polybius Porphyrius Priscus Procopius Simplicius of Cilicia Sozomen...

. Middle Platonic Antiochus Eudorus of Alexandria Philo of Alexandria Plutarch Gaius Apuleius Alcinous Galen more... Neopythagorean Nigidius Figulus Apollonius...

There may have been more. Plutarch, Life of Lucullus, 42.4-43.3 Plutarch, Life of Lucullus, 38.1–39.3 Tacitus Annals 6.50 Plutarch, Life of Lucullus, 38.2–41...

He was a teacher of Plutarch, who praises his great learning, and introduces him discoursing on religion and sacred rites. Plutarch wrote a biography of...

immersed in a deep political crisis. Ancient Greeks (Strabo, Herodotus, Plutarch, Homer, etc.) and Romans (Titus Livius, Tacitus, etc.) referred to early...

Archived 5 October 2018 at the Wayback Machine Plutarch, Life of Cleomenes, 3 Plutarch, Life of Cleomenes, 4 Plutarch, Life of Cleomenes, 4 Polybius 2.46 Smith...

of biographies of notable individuals under the title Novi Plutarh (New Plutarch, 1809–1841). Ivanović was born in Sen Mikluš, Habsburg monarchy, today's...

in Neoplatonism Pantaenus Platonic Academy Plato's unwritten doctrines Plutarch of Chaeronea The Theology of Aristotle Thomas Taylor Plotinian concepts...

Polybius (II, 18, 2), Livy (V, 35–55), Diodorus Siculus (XIV, 113–117), Plutarch (Camillus, 15–32) and Strabo (V, 2–3). The accounts of the Battle of the...

42. Rice. "Tigranocerta", p. 136. Plutarch. Life of Lucullus, 28.1–3. Plutarch. Life of Lucullus, 28.3. Plutarch. Life of Lucullus, 28.4. Sherwin-White...

trust and rose to power to become her adviser as mentioned by historian Plutarch. When Caesar came to Alexandria in the summer of 48 BC he summoned the...

although Hitler was (debatably) vegetarian. The ancient Greek author, Plutarch, who wrote in the first and second century AD, mentioned a Spartan dish...

Plutarch 1980, p. 27. Roebuck 1966, p. 305. Roebuck 1966, pp. 319–320. Plutarch 1980, p. 28. Roebuck 1966, p. 306. Plutarch 1980, pp. 33–38. Plutarch...

1214. Plutarch, Caesar 7; Suetonius, Julius 13 Deprecated link archived 2012-05-30 at archive.today, 46 Cicero, Letters to Atticus 1.13; Plutarch, Caesar...

authoritative account; Livy's near contemporary Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and Plutarch (c. 46 – 120 AD); their own sources included works by Quintus Fabius Pictor...

the Republican Party's rightward turn. Reagan is nominated for the 2025 Plutarch Award. "Understanding the Republican Party's rightward march". The Economist...

by later doxographers and philosophers. These include Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, Sextus Empiricus, Clement of Alexandria, Hippolytus of Rome, Diogenes...

extra detail for the period is provided by Plutarch, in his biographies of Aristides and especially Cimon. Plutarch was writing some 600 years after the events...

Plutarch is a lunar impact crater that lies near the north-northeastern limb of the Moon, just to the south of the irregular crater Seneca. To the southeast...

poet, wrote about Tarpeia as well. Eight lines were preserved by Plutarch in which Plutarch criticizes Simylos’ version which details that Tarpeia betrayed...

Plutarch, Crassus, 8:1–2; Appian, Civil Wars, 1:116; Livy, Periochae, 95:2 Archived 2018-11-07 at the Wayback Machine; Florus, Epitome, 2.8. Plutarch...

May 2013. Plutarch, Parallel lives, The live of Tiberius Gracchus, 7.4 Plutarch, Parallel Lives, The life of Tiberius Gracchus, 20.1 Plutarch, Parallel...

chapter 82". www.perseus.tufts.edu. "Plutarch, Parallela minora, section 3". www.perseus.tufts.edu. "Plutarch, De Herodoti malignitate, section 17"....

52; Plutarch. Life of Cleomenes, 20; Green 1990, p. 259. Plutarch. Life of Cleomenes, 20. Polybius. The Rise of the Roman Empire, 2.53; Plutarch. Cleomenes...

"Lycurgus of Sparta in the Imperial Age: Plutarch, Pausanias, and Lucian". Plutarch and his Contemporaries. Brill's Plutarch Studies. Vol. 14. Brill. pp. 254–265...

her and designed by Plutarch to give the reader a negative impression of Theseus' treatment of women – a trait for which Plutarch later criticises him...

κακός, meaning "bad") was a fire-breathing giant and the son of Vulcan (Plutarch called him son of Hephaestus). He was killed by Hercules after terrorizing...

Hyginus, Fabulae 117 Scholia on Euripides, Orestes 33 Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis 4. Pseudo-Plutarch attributed this story to Clitophon the Rhodian's first...

Greek-speaking troupe. The repertoire consisted of works by Greek playwrights. Plutarch wrote that Tigranocerta was "a rich and beautiful city where every common...

exploits which came at the apex of his career. The fullest extant account is Plutarch's "Life of Marcellus", which focuses on warfare and political attainments...

. Middle Platonic Antiochus Eudorus of Alexandria Philo of Alexandria Plutarch Gaius Apuleius Alcinous Galen more... Neopythagorean Nigidius Figulus Apollonius...

familiarity of figures from Roman legend and history in the Parallel Lives by Plutarch is one example of the extent to which "universal history" was then synonymous...

Holford-Strevens (2006), pp. 3134. Sophocles, fragment 861; Fowler (2013), p. 31; Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales – Symposiacs, Moralia 9.14.6 Ovid XIV, 88. Apollonius...

Julian Libanius Lucian Pausanias Philostratus Phlegon of Tralles Photius Plutarch Polyaenus Polybius Porphyrius Priscus Procopius Simplicius of Cilicia Sozomen...

. Middle Platonic Antiochus Eudorus of Alexandria Philo of Alexandria Plutarch Gaius Apuleius Alcinous Galen more... Neopythagorean Nigidius Figulus Apollonius...

reputation for misanthropy grew to legendary status. According to the historian Plutarch, Timon lived during the era of the Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC). According...

Roman Empire, 2.46. Plutarch. Life of Cleomenes, 3; Plutarch. Life of Agis, 20. Polybius. The Rise of the Roman Empire, 2.46; Plutarch. Life of Cleomenes...

well as some Asian texts. The five main surviving accounts are by Arrian, Plutarch, Diodorus Siculus, Quintus Curtius Rufus, and Justin. In addition to these...

Erechtheus". The name Erichthonius is carried by a son of Erechtheus, but Plutarch conflated the two names in the myth of the begetting of Erechtheus. Athenians...

called the "Father of Cosmology" and founder of astronomy. However, pseudo-Plutarch states that he still viewed celestial bodies as deities. He placed the...

warfare. Hunting was also considered an appropriate pastime. According to Plutarch, conservative Romans disapproved of Greek-style athletics that promoted...

BC she married Gaius Marius. They had a son, Gaius Marius the Younger. Plutarch also mentions that Marius had two step-sons named Quintus Granius and Gnaeus...

pp. 131–2. Plutarch 1920, 18.1–2. Hyden 2017, pp. 132–3. Plutarch 1920, 19.1–5. Plutarch 1920, 10.5–6. Hyden 2017, pp. 133–4. Plutarch 1920, 19.3–6...

biographer, and essayist Plutarch, addresses Faustulus in his section, The Life of Romulus, in his work Parallel Lives. Plutarch largely follows Livy's...

(Ancient Greek: Γυρτιάς, Gurtiás) was a Spartan noblewoman who is recorded by Plutarch in the text Sayings of Spartan Women. When her grandson, the future king...

anyone would ever dare to attempt to attack him. However, the historian Plutarch claims that Caesar cried out in Latin "Foulest Casca, what are you doing...

Elder, he was believed to enter the retinue of Dionysus alongside Comus. Plutarch relates that Lycurgus of Sparta dedicated a small statue of Gelos to the...

sequencing actions where each seems to depend on others being done first. Plutarch posed the question as a philosophical matter in his essay "The Symposiacs"...

Peripatetic and Stoic schools. The pre-eminent philosopher in this period, Plutarch (c. 45–120), defended the freedom of the will and the immortality of the...

distinct from Bagoas the Elder, who attempted to assassinate Darius III. In Plutarch's Parallel Lives, he is only briefly mentioned during a dance competition...

to the god and the latter one to the river itself. In a story by Pseudo-Plutarch, Scamander went mad during the mysteries of Rhea and flung himself into...

Egyptians called the god Apollo "Horus" in their own language. However, Plutarch, elaborating further on the same tradition reported by the Greeks, specified...

Kambojas Through the Ages, 2005, p. 134, Kirpal Singh. Plutarch, Mestrius (1994). "Chapter LXII". Plutarch's Lives. Vol. 7. Translated by Perrin, Bernadotte...

he handed over his kingdom to his son and retired from the world, but Plutarch says that he died in camp while on a military campaign, and that his remains...

Pseudo-Plutarch's De fluviis (or Treatise on Rivers and Mountains), a second-century work by an author now known not to have been the actual Plutarch. This...

affair with Caesar seems to have been publicly known in Rome at the time. Plutarch stated that she in turn was madly in love with Caesar. The relationship...

fr. 98 Rose (= Plutarch, Amatorius 760f), quoted at Cantarella p. 71 and Crompton p. 10 from the translation of F.C. Babbit, Plutarch: Moralia, vol. 9...

temple of Diana that stood in the Vicus Patricius, although according to Plutarch, this was the result of a superstition, rather than any express prohibition;...

other ancient writers, including important sources such as Herodotus and Plutarch. Herodotus claimed that Harmodius and Aristogeiton presumably were "Gephyraeans"...

Tripp, s.v. Cyparissus. Callimachus, Hymn to Apollo, 49. Plutarch, Life of Numa, 4.5. Plutarch, Amatorius 17 Ovid, Ars Amatoria 2.239 Tibullus, Elegies...

Milestones in the History of Mathematics. Sterling. ISBN 978-1-4027-5796-9. "Plutarch – Life of Alexander (Part 1 of 7)". penelope.uchicago.edu. Loeb Classical...

in the excerpts from Artaxerxes II's physician, Ctesias, by Photius; Plutarch’s Lives of Artaxerxes II and Lysander; and Thucydides's History of Peloponnesian...

Arithmetikos (ἀριθμητικός). Whether he is the same as the Apollodotus of whom Plutarch quotes two lines, is not quite certain. Diogenes Laërtius, Lives and Opinions...

mother of Lysis, is also described as Calliope's daughter according to Plutarch's Moralia. She was sometimes believed to be Homer's muse for the Iliad and...

Epitome of Pompeius Trogus, xiv. 6 Plutarch, "Demetrius", 25, "Pyrrhus", 4 Plutarch, "Demetrius", 30, 32 Plutarch, "Demetrius", 53 Smith, William (editor);...

ancient sources, both Plutarch and Justin mention Barsine and Heracles but Arrian in the Alexander's Anabasis mentions neither. Plutarch recounts that Alexander...

{\displaystyle E_{7}} has a fundamental representation of dimension 56. Plutarch states that the Pythagoreans associated a polygon of 56 sides with Typhon...

the First Persian invasion of Greece, that ended at Marathon (490 BC). Plutarch wrote, “When someone said to him: 'Except for being king you are not at...

settlers to Camarina. Plutarch 1918, 1.5. Plutarch 1918, 2 and note 6. Plutarch 1918, 2. Plutarch 1918, 7. Plutarch 1918, 7.3–7. Plutarch 1918, note 12. Diodorus...

ISBN 978-0-8032-6004-7. Plutarch, Life of Pyrrhus, 22:4–22:6 Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 22.10 Plutarch, Parallel Lives, Pyrrhus, 23.2-3 Plutarch, Life of...

ten ingredients, which are common to all recipes. Plutarch gives sixteen, Galen fifteen. Plutarch implies a mathematical significance to the number of...

also had to look after his sister or half-sister Elpinice. According to Plutarch, the wealthy Callias took advantage of this situation by proposing to pay...

father's name as Phidias, an astronomer about whom nothing else is known; Plutarch wrote in his Parallel Lives that Archimedes was related to King Hiero II...

aid from the other wing, and when all hope was lost, saved them both. Plutarch says that this incident firmly cemented their friendship, and Pelopidas...

favourite was Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, which he would read to his father while he made watches. Rousseau saw Plutarch's work as another...

Lucius Cornelius Sulla, who was fifty. In his account of the life of Sulla, Plutarch wrote that this was a prestigious marriage for Sulla due to Caecilia being...

biographies of famous men, written by Plutarch and thus often called Plutarch's Lives or The Lives of Plutarch LiVES, a video editing program and VJ tool...

the fifth century BC. He and Ictinus were architects of the Parthenon (Plutarch, Pericles, 13). An inscription identifies him as the architect of "the...

[citation needed] and his breeding was that of the "best Thessalian strain". Plutarch says that in 344 BC, at twelve or thirteen years of age, Alexander of Macedonia...

(Egyptian cobra) to bite her, but according to the Roman-era writers Strabo, Plutarch, and Cassius Dio, Cleopatra poisoned herself using either a toxic ointment...

birth to men." — Gorgo, Queen of Sparta and wife of Leonidas, as quoted by Plutarch Spartan women were famous in ancient Greece for seemingly having more freedom...

According to Plutarch, in his "Life of Antony", the three military victories of Ventidius resulted in the only Triumph (up to the time of Plutarch's writing)...

that the pyramid has one-third the rectangular prism of the same base. Plutarch also reports that Democritus argued that the circular cross-section of...

elected geron received considerable institutionalized honors. According to Plutarch, a new geron crowned himself with a victory wreath, and visited each of...

also translated Malignity; Latin: De Herodoti malignitate) is an essay by Plutarch criticizing the historian Herodotus for all manner of prejudice and misrepresentation...

and Justin all agree that Caranus was Perdiccas' father. Furthermore, Plutarch claimed in his biography of Alexander the Great that all of his sources...

of his ideas from both early opponents such as Clement of Alexandria, Plutarch, and Cicero, and later disciples who defended his views such as a speech...

Volume 2. The Netherlands: Brill Leiden Boston. p. 1164. ISBN 9004122656. Plutarch, Parallela minora 41 Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation...

indomitable Enemy, pp. 106–113; Plutarch Life of Lucullus, 8. Keaveney, Lucullus, p. 77. Plutarch, Lucullus 8. Plutarch, Life of Lucullus 8.6–7, Loeb Classical...

Struggle for Spain, p. 56; Plutarch, Life of Sertorius, 7. Plutarch, Life of Sulla, 31. Cicero, Anthony Everitt, p.41. Plutarch, Roman Lives. Oxford University...

ascend to the divine sphere, as is reflected in the veneration of heroes. Plutarch relates how Alexander the Great was inconsolable after the death of Hephaistion...

skepticism, although individual philosophers, such as Favorinus and his teacher Plutarch, continued to defend skepticism after this date. Unlike the existing school...

would desert to the enemy if they appeared to have lost the initiative. Plutarch also reports that Brutus had not received news of Domitius Calvinus' defeat...

only singing, he started writing comedic plays called Atellan farces. Plutarch mentions that during his last marriage to Valeria, he still kept company...

Julian Libanius Lucian Pausanias Philostratus Phlegon of Tralles Photius Plutarch Polyaenus Polybius Porphyrius Priscus Procopius Simplicius of Cilicia Sozomen...

priestess of Artemis whom Plutarch writes about in both On the Bravery of Women and the Eroticus or Amatorius. As Plutarch is the only source on Camma...

name also appears in a legendary account set in ancient India in Pseudo-Plutarch. According to Strabo, Mount Elephas was a mountain projecting into the...

the Mithraic mysteries are by the Latin poet Statius, about 80 CE, and Plutarch (c. 100 CE). 4486 Mithra, a near-Earth asteroid, is named after Mithra...

known Theban military leader of the Sacred Band of Thebes around 378 BC. Plutarch in his Life of Pelopidas mentions Gorgidas for the first time when the...

story of his life appeared, retold by leading historians such as Livy, Plutarch, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus. More recent scholarship has cast doubt...

1976, p. 250. Plutarch, Cimon, 12 Plutarch, Cimon, 13 Thucydides I, 104 Thucydides I, 109 Sealey 1976, pp. 271–273. Thucydides I, 112 Plutarch, Cimon, 19...

apparently fake story about his trial for asebeia (impiety) in Athens. Plutarch wrote that Pericles and Protagoras spent a whole day discussing an interesting...

among all be passed. — Tyrtaeus, Plutarch Parallel Lives: Lycurgus and Numa. The History Book I Section 65. Plutarch 1880, p. 28 D. Ogden, "Crooked speech:...

paraphrastic translation is the Greek rendering of the Catonian phrase by Plutarch in his Life of Cato the Elder, 27: "Δοκεῖ δέ μοι καὶ Καρχηδόνα μὴ εἶναι"...

mentioned Celtic women inciting, participating in, and leading battles. Plutarch reports that Celtic women acted as ambassadors to avoid a war among Celtic...

use the names "Gandaridae" (Diodorus), "Gandaritae", and "Gandridae" (Plutarch) to describe these people. The ancient Latin writers use the name "Gangaridae"...

as evidence of Diogenes' disregard for authority, wealth, and decorum. Plutarch and Diogenes Laërtius report that Alexander and Diogenes died on the same...

sénateurs et chevaliers. ». Hinard 1985, pp. 266–269. Plutarch, Brutus (27.6) Plutarch, Cicero (46.2) Plutarch, Antony (20.2) Livy, Periochae. 120.4 Florus, 2...

historian, used as a primary source by Josephus, Tacitus, Suetonius and Plutarch. Caligula's sister, Agrippina the Younger, wrote an autobiography that...

Syros Pythagoras Xenophanes Parmenides Empedocles Socrates Plato Aratus Plutarch Plotinus Iamblichus Texts Argonautica Bibliotheca Catasterismi Corpus Hermeticum...

"Here is Peloponnesus, not Ionia" (τάδ᾽ ἐστὶ Πελοπόννησος, οὐκ Ἰωνία); Plutarch ascribed the erection of the stele to the Attic hero Theseus, on his way...

the victor of the contest. Plutarch further contends that, following this loss, Aeschylus soon left for Sicily. Though Plutarch says that this was Sophocles's...

Fabius Maximus Aemilianus, with Nasica. Plutarch specified that the son volunteered to join the expedition. Plutarch wrote that Perseus did not know about...

boys to learn? "What they ought to do when they come to be men," said he. Plutarch relates a comparison made by Simonides between Spartan education of citizens...

accepted throughout Ancient Greece, there were other thinkers such as Plutarch who correctly predicted that the attraction of gravity was not unique to...

as Hull, a tribute from District 11 Capitol Residents Jesse Plemons as Plutarch Heavensbee, a young cameraman for the Hunger Games. He was played by Philip...

*sreyHg-) and the Latin verb from *h₃rew-. This hypothesis originates from Plutarch. "Romulus and Remus". Britannica. 25 November 2014. Archived from the original...

Lightman 2008, p. 23. Plutarch, Life of Pompey 9 Shaw 2002, pp. 238. Shaw 2002, pp. 222, 241. Plutarch, Life of Pompey 9.4 Plutarch, Life of Caesar 1 Jacobs...

480 BC. Ariabignes was the commander of the Carian and Ionian forces. Plutarch calls him, Ariamenes[pronunciation?] (Ἀριαμένης), and speaks of him as...

. Middle Platonic Antiochus Eudorus of Alexandria Philo of Alexandria Plutarch Gaius Apuleius Alcinous Galen more... Neopythagorean Nigidius Figulus Apollonius...

Greek currency and weight. Obols were used from early times. According to Plutarch they were originally spits of copper or bronze traded by weight, while...

neutrality by participating in hostilities outside of Clusium. Livy and Plutarch say that the Senones marched to Rome to exact retribution for this. It...

held him in high regard. Cineas was an Epicurean according to Cicero and Plutarch. Historian Johannes Engels [de] estimated that Cineas was born in Thessaly...

rhetorician Isocrates. Diodorus Siculus instead gives Crete as her mother, and Plutarch states that her father is the Titan Atlas. Pasiphaë married Minos, the...

lived for some time at Heraclea, where he was the pupil of Aresas, or (as Plutarch calls him) Arcesus. Diogenes Laërtius is the only authority for the claim...

1925, § 8, 9. Habicht 1988, p. 14 citing Plutarch 1902, Phoc § 29.6 and Whitehead 1981, pp. 238–241. Plutarch, Flamin. c. 12, X. Orat. Vitae, 7; but compare...

blissful meadows go. — Virgil, Aeneid (6.641) In the Greek historian Plutarch's Life of Sertorius, Elysium is described as: These are two in number, separated...

Hipponax Homer Ibycus Lucian Menander Mimnermus Panyassis Philocles Pindar Plutarch Polybius Sappho Simonides Sophocles Stesichorus Theognis Thucydides Timocreon...

him to remove it. Plutarch states that the people all approved of this out of respect for her (due to her sons and her father). Plutarch also writes that...

lacked a word for posca, sources written in Greek, such as the Bible and Plutarch, use the word οξος, oxos 'vinegar' in its place (translated as acetum in...

life can be found in ancient sources, including Aristotle, Herodotus, and Plutarch. An ancient literary work called The Aesop Romance tells an episodic, probably...

Perseus Digital Library. Almagor, Eran (1 August 2018), "Ctesias (b)", Plutarch and the Persica, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 73–133, doi:10...

. Middle Platonic Antiochus Eudorus of Alexandria Philo of Alexandria Plutarch Gaius Apuleius Alcinous Galen more... Neopythagorean Nigidius Figulus Apollonius...

Press. p. 101. ISBN 9780806132129. Plutarch, Parallel Lives, "Life of Alexander" 21 (ed. Clough 1859; ed. Loeb). Plutarch, Parallel Lives, "Life of Eumenes"...

27.1–7. Plutarch 1918, 27.7–28.7. Plutarch 1918, 28.8–29. Diodorus Siculus 1963, 16.80.4–5. Plutarch 1918, 30. Plutarch 1918, 31.2–8. Plutarch 1918, 34...

Alexandria; a temple of Serapis in Egypt is mentioned in 323 BCE by both Plutarch and Arrian. Ptolemy I Soter made efforts to integrate his new Egyptian...

VI, 105 Plutarch, On the Malice of Herodotus, 26 Xenophon, Anabasis III, 2 Aelian, Varia Historia II, 25 Aristophanes, The Knights, 660 Plutarch, Theseus...

θεὸς γεωμετρεῖ. Aeì ho theòs geōmetreî. "God always geometrizes." — Plato Plutarch elaborated on this phrase in his essay Πῶς Πλάτων ἔλεγε τὸν θεὸν ἀεί γεωμετρεῖν...

Berenice for safety, possibly as part of plans for an escape to India. Plutarch does say that Caesarion was sent to India, but also that he was lured back...

fabricated to glorify the Ptolemaic dynasty. From an anecdote recorded by Plutarch, it is clear that Lagus was a man of obscure birth; hence, when Theocritus...

Caunus, where he married Hilebia, daughter of King Aegialus. According to Plutarch, the river Inachus had before borne the name of Carmanor or Haliacmon....

approximately 7,000 allied Greek infantry. There is an anecdote recorded by Plutarch about an Antigonus who lost an eye at the Siege of Perinthus in 340 BC...

Greek Questions, by Plutarch, tr. Frank Cole Babbitt, [1936, at sacred-texts.com, 14] The Roman and Greek Questions, by Plutarch, tr. Frank Cole Babbitt...

time he would watch the battle himself to ensure they would act bravely. Plutarch, in On the Malice of Herodotus, believe that Herodotus wrote that because...

in Sparta during the reign of the semi-mythical Lycurgus. According to Plutarch's Life of Lycurgus, not only did Lycurgus ban the use of gold and silver...

established in the 1980s. It includes (mainly tax-related) incentives. Plutarch in his Parallel Lives (Sertorius, 75 AD) referring to the military commander...

Columbia University Press. p. 96. "Plutarch • Life of Pompey". penelope.uchicago.edu. 13.5. Retrieved 10 March 2025. "Plutarch • Life of Pompey". penelope.uchicago...

ISBN 978-0-88864-253-0. Plutarch, Pelopidas, 7 Plutarch, Pelopidas, 8–13 Plutarch, Pelopidas, 8–13; Xenophon, Hellenica, 5.4 Plutarch, Pelopidas, 8–13. For...

because she offered her children the best opportunities of education. Plutarch described her as a woman of discretion. Highly intelligent, independent...

chronology, based on an account of the battle by the Roman historian Livy. Plutarch noted that the battle took place "just after the summer solstice when the...

. Middle Platonic Antiochus Eudorus of Alexandria Philo of Alexandria Plutarch Gaius Apuleius Alcinous Galen more... Neopythagorean Nigidius Figulus Apollonius...

aspects) from Sir Thomas North's 1579 translation of Parallel Lives by Plutarch, Shakespeare presents a dramatised account of Caesar's growing power, his...

Plutarch wrote biographies of four of the major commanders in the war (Pericles, Nicias, Alcibiades and Lysander) in his Parallel Lives. Plutarch's focus...

Hellenica Oxyrhynchia, and later continued by Diodorus of Sicily. Moreover, Plutarch wrote a biography of Agesilaus in his Parallel Lives, which contains many...

infantry and excellent protection against arrows and other missile attacks. Plutarch describes this formation as used by Mark Antony during his invasion of...

of Odysseus), whereas book 14 covers the stories of Picus and Glaucus. Plutarch took up the theme in a lively dialogue that was later to have several imitators...

According to Pseudo-Plutarch's Treatise on Rivers and Mountains, Lilaeus (Ancient Greek: Λίλαιος, Lílaios) was an Indian shepherd who angered the gods...

turned against him. This forced him to leave Sicily and return to Italy. Plutarch gave the most detailed account of the battle. He wrote that during the...

evade Hera. The three "canonical" versions of the myth—those of Livy, Plutarch and Dionysius of Halicarnassus—all draw heavily on Quintus Fabius Pictor...

(Princeton University Press 1961) 1225 Cooper & Hutchinson 1997. Plutarch, Plutarch's Lives. Nabu Press, 2010. Taran 1975 p 131. Diogenes Laertius 5,22...

appear in the records of all of the five major surviving accounts—Arrian, Plutarch, Diodorus, Curtius Rufus, and Justin. All five agree that Alexander founded...

immediately made him a wealthy citizen (though modest among the elite). Plutarch reports around this time, he also began to study Stoicism under the philosopher...

writing. According to Plutarch, Herodotus was granted a financial reward by the Athenian assembly in recognition of his work. Plutarch, using Diyllus as a...

Rhodes. Clement of Alexandria called Cleobulus king of the Lindians, and Plutarch spoke of him as the tyrant. The letter quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, in...

Marius, p. 144. Plutarch, Life of Marius, 22.2. , referring to the Ambronic and Teutonic dead he had left at Aquae Sextiae Plutarch, Life of Marius,...

Bertman, Stephen S., 135–142. Amsterdam: Grüner. Tröster, Manuel. 2012. "Plutarch and mos maiorum in the Life of Aemilius Paullus." Ancient Society 42, 219–254...

In Life of Crassus 21, written c. 125 years after the commander's time, Plutarch described Surena as "an extremely distinguished man. In wealth, birth,...

Cleopatra VII of Egypt. His physician was a Greek man called Philotas. From Plutarch's account of Antony, clause 28, the historian gives a story of the character...

referred to as the Hekatompedos or the Hekatompedon as well as the Parthenon. Plutarch referred to the building during the first century AD as the Hekatompedos...

sacrificial ashes estimated to be from 400 B.C. have been found on the summit. Plutarch, writing during the Roman Empire, reported that writings and sacrificial...

Eusebius describes the martyrdom of this group: The first of these was Plutarch, who was mentioned just above. As he was led to death, the man of whom...

Ino cared for her Dionysus. According to the 1st-century CE historian Plutarch, Mater Matuta could be considered "almost identical with Leucothea." Similarly...

which Proclus eventually inherited from Plutarch and Syrianus. The heads of the Neoplatonic Academy were Plutarch of Athens, Syrianus, Proclus, Marinus...

by a dictator. On the threatened veto of elections, see Livy 27.6.2–11. Plutarch, Life of Tiberius Gracchus. See the use of both forms by Volero in Livy's...

Germania), used as a source by other prominent Roman historians including Plutarch, Tacitus, and Suetonius. Tacitus may have used Bella Germaniae as the primary...

Chaironeus; c. 95 – c. 185) was a philosopher, a nephew or grandson of Plutarch, and one of the teachers of the emperor Marcus Aurelius. The Suda (a 10th-century...

Argonauts; Archimedes, who wrote groundbreaking mathematical treatises; and Plutarch, who wrote mainly biographies and essays. The second-century AD writer...

sed etiam a servitute degenerant. Hic Suebiae finis.[citation needed] "Plutarch • Sayings of Spartans — Lycurgus". penelope.uchicago.edu. Retrieved February...

Theophrastus, Nemesianus, as well as later Roman writers such as Virgil, Horace, Plutarch, Petronius, Pliny The Elder, Oppian, and Pollux. Late antiquity writer...

the Doctrines of Other Philosophers was disputed in two extant works by Plutarch, and Carneiscus, whose work criticizing the peripatetic conception of friendship...

purpose was to protect against Thessalian and other forces. But elsewhere Plutarch gives a date for the Thessalian invasion as shortly preceding the Second...

. Middle Platonic Antiochus Eudorus of Alexandria Philo of Alexandria Plutarch Gaius Apuleius Alcinous Galen more... Neopythagorean Nigidius Figulus Apollonius...

Peloponnesian War, pp. 111–12. Plutarch, Parallel Lives, "Life of Pericles" 17.3 (ed. Clough 1859; ed. Loeb).. Thucydides, I, 112. Plutarch, Parallel Lives, "Life...

of the late 1st century – early 2nd century AD biographer and essayist Plutarch, who mentions "Zagreus" as one of the names given to the figure by Delphic...

Plutarch Heavensbee 2014 God's Pocket Mickey Scarpato Also producer A Most Wanted Man Günther Bachmann The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 Plutarch...

named Deucalion as a king of Ozolian Locris and father of Orestheus. Plutarch mentioned a legend that Deucalion and Pyrrha had settled in Dodona, Epirus;...

2025. Plutarch, Themistocles 2.1. Translated by Bernadotte Perrin, 1914. Plutarch, Themistocles 1.1. Translated by Bernadotte Perrin, 1914. Plutarch, Themistocles...

sister Antiope, who was an Amazon that Theseus married in a separate myth. Plutarch states that the Amazons had most likely conquered most of the Athenian...

agreement that the oath took place; it is reported, although differently, by Plutarch and Appian. Nevertheless, the spirit of the oath inspired later Romans...

15th Edition Plutarch, The Life of Lycurgus, 18.1 Sekunda (1998), pp. 10–11 Sekunda (1998), p. 12 Plutarch, The Life of Lycurgus, 22.2 Plutarch, Moralia,...

Julian Libanius Lucian Pausanias Philostratus Phlegon of Tralles Photius Plutarch Polyaenus Polybius Porphyrius Priscus Procopius Simplicius of Cilicia Sozomen...

century AD and is mentioned several times by the philosopher and writer Plutarch in his work, Moralia. Mestrius Florus was a Novus homo, meaning that he...

Cyrenaean king Arcesilaus II. Little is known about Critola. According to Plutarch, she was renowned for her great dignity and was highly respected by all...

It is probably this Nicanor who is alluded to in an anecdote related by Plutarch of Philip II of Macedon, as a person of some distinction during the reign...

candidate, probably to maximise his chances of finding someone interested. Plutarch tells that the people reached by Vindex forwarded his letters to Nero,...

admiration as an orator, although his voice was deep and apt to fall. Plutarch describes him as slender and weak; and Plato also alludes to his weakness...

in Pseudo-Plutarch's Treatise on Rivers and Mountains (or De fluviis), a work by an author now known not to have been the actual Plutarch. This second-century...

child. According to Plutarch's account, Stateira's sister, Drypetis, was killed at the same time; Carney believes that Plutarch was mistaken, and it...

"bridge-builder" was that of Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Marcus Terentius Varro. Plutarch pointed out that the term existed before there were any bridges in Rome...

tufts.edu. Retrieved 2024-05-24. "Plutarch, Theseus, chapter 8". www.perseus.tufts.edu. Retrieved 2024-05-24. "Plutarch, Theseus, chapter 25". www.perseus...

he fled the battle with his escort, returning to Macedonian territory. Plutarch would later say: Philip, however, got safely away, and for this the Aetolians...

chief opponents of the naval policy proposed by Themistocles. According to Plutarch, citing the philosopher Ariston of Ceos, the rivalry between Aristides...

initially appeared to back their ships away as if in fear. According to Plutarch, this was to gain better position, and also in order to gain time until...

conquered the island, as part of the Trojan War. According to Euphorion and Plutarch, the men of Tanagra, ruled by King Poemander, refused the oath and call...

This derivation was apparently a popular one in ancient Rome, given by Plutarch but rejected by Varro and Cincius.[where?] Using value from Richards (2013...

married Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio Nasica. In the words of Plutarch: [Atilia] was the first woman with whom he made love, but not the only...

Urbe Condita. Macmillan Education Ltd. p. 20. ISBN 0-86292-296-8. Pseudo-Plutarch. Parallela Graeca et Romana. (Authorship disputed) (Loeb ed.). Tarpeia...

"Leuconoe", instead) and Arsippe (Claudius Aelianus calls her "Aristippa"; Plutarch calls her "Arsinoë). They were daughters of Minyas, king of Orchomenus...

118-119 Hesiod, Shield of Heracles 16 Pausanias, 2.25.9 Apollodorus, 2.4.5 Plutarch, Lives Theseus 7.1 Diodorus Siculus, 4.9.1 Pausanias, 5.17.8 Hesiod, Shield...

was obtained by a singular daimon prior to their birth by way of lot. Plutarch writes that Opuntians had two priests: one appointed to oversee matters...

60 conspirators, led by Brutus and Cassius, were involved. According to Plutarch, a seer had warned that harm would come to Caesar on the Ides of March...

Syros Pythagoras Xenophanes Parmenides Empedocles Socrates Plato Aratus Plutarch Plotinus Iamblichus Texts Argonautica Bibliotheca Catasterismi Corpus Hermeticum...

more sparse. Plutarch, when writing his Life of Artaxerxes II, used Ctesias, Dinon, Xenophon, and a few others as references. Plutarch's is the only ancient...

shape which is said to be derived from Mycenaean art. As described by Plutarch, the shape of the ancile is a standard shield, neither round or oval, which...

"two fateful portions of death"; this, then, is known as the kerostasia. Plutarch reports that Aeschylus wrote a play with the title Psychostasia, in which...

in 71 BC. Winkler 2008, p. 222 Bury 1994, p. 331 Strauss 2009, p. 213 Plutarch, Crassus 11, 2–3. Bury, John Bagnell (1994). The Cambridge Ancient History...

and by Mardonius, and it continued to be consulted even in the time of Plutarch, when all the other oracles in Boeotia had become dumb. Pausanias himself...

that Dienekes said many other similar things which made him unforgotten. Plutarch, writing hundreds of years later, also mentions this comment in his "Sayings...

iii. 1. Plutarch, "The Life of Romulus", 18. Dionysius, ii. 42. Livy, i. 13. Dionysius, ii. 45, 46. Plutarch, "The Life of Romulus", 19. Plutarch, "The...

songs critiquing "the liar, the cheat, and traitor" Themistocles, who Plutarch claimed played a hand in a series of ostracisms that removed the pair from...

lost work by Callixenus of Rhodes and surviving texts by Athenaeus and Plutarch. According to these descriptions, supported by modern research by Lionel...

been available in Constantinople in the 11th century. He is praised by Plutarch (Comparison of Menander and Aristophanes) and Quintilian (Institutio Oratoria)...

demonstrate his faith. A tomb to the sramana, was still visible in the time of Plutarch, which bore the mention "ΖΑΡΜΑΝΟΧΗΓΑΣ ΙΝΔΟΣ ΑΠΟ ΒΑΡΓΟΣΗΣ" ("The sramana...

. Middle Platonic Antiochus Eudorus of Alexandria Philo of Alexandria Plutarch Gaius Apuleius Alcinous Galen more... Neopythagorean Nigidius Figulus Apollonius...

terms of perceived Greek analogues, or when Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Plutarch document Roman cults, temples, and practices under the names of equivalent...

Younger. Plutarch, Cato the Elder, 24.2. Plutarch, Cato the Elder, 24.1. Plutarch, Cato the Elder, 24.3 Plutarch, Cato the Elder, 24.4. Plutarch, Cato the...

An early incarnation of this sentiment can be found in Socrates, whom Plutarch quoted as saying: "I am not an Athenian, or a Greek, but a citizen of the...

India by Alexander the Great as Described by Arrian, Q. Curtius, Diodoros, Plutarch and Justin: Being Translations of Such Portions of the Works of These and...

Additional details are provided by Plutarch's Parallel Lives biographies of Aristides and especially Cimon. Plutarch wrote six centuries after the events...

of the worst opinions of Nero and calls him an "enemy of mankind". Plutarch Plutarch (c. 46–127) mentions Nero indirectly in his account of the Life of...

female mule was the only material not "rotted" by its water. According to Plutarch the poisonous water could only be held by an ass's hoof, since all other...

Spartans. Plutarch also mentions, in the Life of Numa Pompilius, "Sabines, who declare themselves to be a colony of the Lacedaemonians". Plutarch also wrote...

(305 BC). Descriptions of it were written by Diodorus Siculus, Vitruvius, Plutarch, and in the Athenaeus Mechanicus. The Helepolis was essentially a large...

the inevitability of death and suffering. Aeschylus, Fragment 199 (from Plutarch, Life and Poety of Homer 157) (trans. Weir Smyth): "A man dies not for...

Euripides Scholia on Apollonius Diodorus Siculus Parthenius Apollodorus Plutarch Dio Chrysostom Hyginus Pausanias Philostratus Eusebius Tzetzes Parentage...

dragging them across the isthmus of Suez to the Red Sea. Then, according to Plutarch, the Arabs of Petra attacked and burned the first wave of these ships and...

responded as he died. Suetonius mentions the quote merely as a rumor, as does Plutarch who also reports that Caesar said nothing, but merely pulled his toga over...

Hipponax Homer Ibycus Lucian Menander Mimnermus Panyassis Philocles Pindar Plutarch Polybius Sappho Simonides Sophocles Stesichorus Theognis Thucydides Timocreon...

Library 504. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. Plutarch, Parallela minora, 34. Plutarch, Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat, 8. Plato, Laws...

expressed the wish that his name be sung in the last of their carmina. Plutarch gives a slightly different version of the story, writing that the cause...

459f. Suetonius, Julius 28 Plutarch, Caesar 60.2 Suetonius, Julius 32 Plutarch, Caesar 35.2 Plutarch, Caesar 42–45 Plutarch, Caesar 37.2 Martin Jehne,...

pretense of friendship and killed him upon landing. According to both Plutarch and Caesar's account, Pompey was reassured by the presence of Septimius...

him in the marketplace of Chalcis, the pillar of which still stood in Plutarch's days. Aristotle attributed a popular local song to the legacy of Cleomachus:...

Mediterranean; Plutarch describes it as the key battle of Pompey's clearing of the Mediterranean of pirates after several smaller battles. According to Plutarch the...

is often stated to have died in childbirth, but this is not confirmed. Plutarch refers to Pompeia, Cornelia's successor, as Caesar's third wife, implying...

prominent, due in good part to their success with Olympic chariot-racing. Plutarch claimed that Cimon, Miltiades's father, was known as "Coalemos", meaning...

celebrated annually, especially at Orchomenus in Boeotia. According to Plutarch, agrionia was celebrated at night with only women accompanied by the priests...

to that of Spartan males. Because of this physical and mental training, Plutarch attributes an anecdote to Gorgo in which a foreign woman notes, "You Spartan...

part of the oral tradition or invented by Alexandrian scholars. Pseudo-Plutarch attributed the divisions to Aristarchus of Samothrace, but there is some...

Athens, succeeding his teacher Plutarch of Athens in 431/432 AD. He is important as the teacher of Proclus, and, like Plutarch of Athens and Proclus, as a...

Homer by the pseudo-Herodotus, and the Life of Homer related by the Pseudo-Plutarch. Her name may be connected with κριθή (krithé), barley. Critheïs' father...

Constantine P. Cavafy, published in 1911. The God Abandons Antony refers to Plutarch's story of how Antony, besieged in Alexandria by Octavian, heard the sounds...

Garezou, p. 91. Orpheus' Thracian origin, already maintained by Strabo and Plutarch, has been adopted again by E. Rohde (Psyche), by E. Mass (Orpheus), and...

the Great, Julius Caesar, Scipio Africanus, and Pyrrhus. According to Plutarch, Scipio asked Hannibal "who the greatest general was", to which Hannibal...

Cambridge University Press. Plutarch, Antony 31; Appian, Civil Wars 5.64 and 5.66; Cassius Dio, Roman History 48.31.3 Plutarch, Antony 33; Appian, Civil...

of the 80s BC, this inheritance was confiscated by the dictator Sulla. Plutarch, Caesar 1, 9; Suetonius, Julius 1 Deprecated link archived 2012-05-30 at...

Ausonius. Both Ephorus and Plutarch (in his Banquet of the Seven Sages) substituted Anacharsis for Myson. Elsewhere, Plutarch claims that Epimenides the...

Historiae Alexandri Magni, iv. 13; Plutarch, Parallel Lives, "Eumenes", 13-19 Polyaenus, Strategems, 4.6.13 Plutarch, Life of Eumenes, 19.2"Thus died Eumenes;...

evidence to suggest he lived as late as 397 BC, or perhaps slightly later. Plutarch preserves a tradition that he was murdered in Skaptē Hulē and that his...

were the primary source that other historians of the time used, such as Plutarch. Hammond preferred the figure of 60,000 soldiers, which is supplied by...

into the modern era. His review of the contributions made by Lucretius, Plutarch, Aristotle, Copernicus, Immanuel Kant, John Wilkins, Charles Darwin and...

236. Livy, History of Rome, i. 16; Dionysius, Roman Antiquities, ii. 63; Plutarch, "The Life of Romulus", 28; Cicero, De Republica, ii. 20, De Legibus, i...

Geoffrey Gibbon Herodotus Hobsbawm Ibn Khaldun Josephus Karamzin Mommsen Plutarch Ranke Sima Tacitus Taylor Thucydides Turner Vasari Xenophon Timelines Prehistoric...

Argolis. Pausanias mentions a spring called Adrasteia at Nemea, and Pseudo-Plutarch, mentions a root called Adraseia produced on a mountaintop in Argolis....

2007, page 47, "Dicomes of the Getians" Plutarch, Plutarch's Lives, Antony, Chapter 63.4 Plutarch, Plutarch's Lives, Antony, Bernadotte Perrin, Ed., London...

Sparta. Plutarch, Life of Pyrrhus 26–28 Plutarch, Life of Pyrrhus 26. Plutarch, Life of Pyrrhus, 27-28. Plutarch, Life of Pyrrhus, 27-28. Plutarch, Parallel...

of events. Greek and Roman writings, particularly On Isis and Osiris by Plutarch, provide more information but may not always accurately reflect Egyptian...

are uncertain, it belongs to the classical period, as it was known to Plutarch. Its composition date was traditionally placed in the 5th century BC, but...

leader of their group, whom Alexander later went to meet in the forest. Plutarch indicates that his real name was Sphínēs and that he was from Taxila, but...

the main entrance to ancient Athens. The temple was perhaps the one that Plutarch referred to as the "so called Iaccheion". Nearby was the Pompeion, the...

practiced ableism through infanticide, as suggested in the writings of Plutarch, Plato, and Aristotle. Despite this, ancient Greeks demonstrated notable...

essayist Plutarch was born in Chaeronea, and several times refers to these and other facts about his native place in his writings. Plutarch refers to...

was the daughter of Epicles. Both Plutarch and Athenaeus say that her real name was Mnesarete. According to Plutarch, she was called Phryne because she...

attributed to Pseudo-Antonio (Venice, 1477), a revised edition of the preceding Plutarch, Greek Questions and Roman Questions, translated into Latin by Giovan Pietro...

ISBN 9780786471119. Nonnus, 48.264 ff. Homer, Odyssey 7.56-57 Pausanias, 1.43.4 Pseudo-Plutarch, Parallel Lives 27.312b Apollodorus, 3.12.7; Pausanias, 1.42.1 & 1.17.3...

increased the number of Vestals to six. In the Imperial era as attested by Plutarch, the college had six Vestals at any given time. Claims by Ambrose and others...

there in mourning attire to perform ritual lamentations for Achilles. Plutarch writes that there was a temenos near Tanagra dedicated to Achilles and...

University of Cambridge and Fellow of Clare College. 19 December 2024 Plutarch's Parallel Lives Judith Mossman, Professor Emerita of Classics at Coventry...

2009. Pomeroy, Sarah B (1999-06-03), "Reflections on Plutarch, A Consolation to His Wife", Plutarch's Advice to the Bride and Groom and A Consolation to...

advance as Islam places a great theological weight on communal prayer. Plutarch associated the birth of Romulus, the foundation of Rome, and his death...

was guardian of his nephew Leobetes, the Spartan king. Both Xenophon and Plutarch also attribute to Lycurgus the introduction of a very cumbersome coinage...

followed by famine in China (43 BCE), the Roman Republic, and Egypt, with Plutarch (among others) suggesting a causal link; however, an eruption of Mount...

depicted as a black bull wearing a solar disk and uraeus. As reported by Plutarch, the Mnevis bull was second only to the Memphite Apis bull in importance...

misreading of Plutarch's Life of Demetrius which is about Demetrius Poliorcetes and not Demetrius Phalereus.[citation needed] But Plutarch describes in...

description, in Plutarch, Life of Pelopidas Diodorus Siculus, Library 15.81.2 Diodorus Siculus, Library (Online texts from the Perseus Project.) Plutarch, Life...

descent from Heracles but was not a member of a royal family. According to Plutarch, Lysander grew up in poverty and showed himself obedient, conformed to...

This version of the story of Dionysus' birth is only found in Pseudo-Plutarch's On Rivers. Arge, a nymph and the daughter of Zeus and Hera.[citation needed]...

considered the first year of the Roman Republic. According to Livy and Plutarch, the Valerii were of Sabine origin, but settled in Rome during the reign...

festival in Athens and has been used as a reference on its proceedings. Plutarch in his treatise De cupiditate divitiarum, commented on the simple nature...

Lucio Russo traces this to Gilles Ménage's printing of a passage from Plutarch's On the Apparent Face in the Orb of the Moon, in which Aristarchus jokes...

shipments. Cleopatra's personal life during this time is not recorded, though Plutarch wrote that Alexander commented that Cleopatra should have some enjoyment...

Britannica. Retrieved 31 March 2020. Plutarch. [Lives of] Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus, c. 39. In: Waterfield, Robin. Plutarch, Roman Lives, pp. 114, 458 (note...

. Middle Platonic Antiochus Eudorus of Alexandria Philo of Alexandria Plutarch Gaius Apuleius Alcinous Galen more... Neopythagorean Nigidius Figulus Apollonius...

Iberian Peninsula at Baelo, near the Pillars of Hercules (Gibraltar). Plutarch's account implies that Sertorius first went to Lusitania, where he organized...

to Epirus, Admetus assured Themistocles of his protection. According to Plutarch, Admetus ignored everything that the Athenian and Lacedaemonian commissioners...

Civil Wars, 1:116. Frontinus, Stratagems, Book I, 5:20–22 and Book VII:6. Plutarch, Crassus, 9:1–3; Frontinus, Stratagems, Book I, 5:20–22; Appian, Civil...

De Situ Orbis. i:17 – via archive.org. Plutarch. Life of Alexander. III.5 – via penelope.uchicago.edu. (Plutarch mentions the burning of the Artemiseum)...

Publishing, 2006, pp. 89–91 Dio 49.41, 50.3; Plutarch, Life of Antony, pp. 54, 58 Cassius Dio, Roman History, Book 49 Plutarch, Life of Antony, Chapter 54...

Books. ISBN 978-0-948080-61-6. Arrian, Anabasis Alexandri, i. 12, 15, 16 Plutarch, The Life of Alexander, 16. Smith, William (editor); Dictionary of Greek...

ii.11; Livy xl.45. Plutarch, Life of Coriolanus 1; Valerius Maximus iv.1 §3. Zonar. vii.19. Cicero, de Lege Agraria ii.11. Plutarch Life of Cato the Elder...

facts, in contrast to the style of some of his contemporaries, such as Plutarch. When he writes about a near defeat of the Roman army in Annals I,63, he...

Civil Wars". penelope.uchicago.edu. Retrieved June 11, 2024. Plutarch, Crassus 25.11. "Plutarch, Demosthenes, chapter 29, section 1". www.perseus.tufts.edu...

2020. Artaxerxes I of Persia. 2010. ISBN 978-613-0-82634-5. "Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch: Themistocles Themistocles, Part II". 1 October 2015. Archived...

with particular focus on Plutarch. She has made significant contributions to the field, with her novel approaches to Plutarch's Lives and Moralia, which...

Anabasis of Alexander 1, 7, 1–2. Plutarch, Demostene 23, 1; Aeschines, Contro Ctesifonte 239. Habicht 1998, p. 33. "Plutarch • Life of Alexander (Part 1 of...

of Ancient Egypt (2010), p. 279 Plutarch, Life of Aemilius Paullus 8.3 Plutarch, Life of Aemilius Paullus 8.3 Plutarch, Life of Aemilius Paullus 8.3 Eusebius...

attested version holds that Hersilia was herself the wife of Romulus; Plutarch recorded both versions and drew attention to the discrepancy between the...

out"). Plutarch, Life of Caesar, lix, 2. Mommsen, Theodor (1894), Dickson, William Purdie (ed.), The History of Rome, Vol. I, Ch. xiv. Plutarch, Life of...

Sophist, Statesman 2x Plutarch, Compendium libri de animae procreatione + De animae procreatione in Timaeo, 2x Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica In Book 7 of...

February 2021. "Life of Pericles 13,8". Plutarch, Parallel Lives. uchicago.edu. 1916. The Parallel Lives by Plutarch published in Vol. III of the Loeb Classical...

Jena Malone would play Johanna Mason. Philip Seymour Hoffman would play Plutarch Heavensbee. Sam Claflin would play Finnick Odair. It was later announced...

. Middle Platonic Antiochus Eudorus of Alexandria Philo of Alexandria Plutarch Gaius Apuleius Alcinous Galen more... Neopythagorean Nigidius Figulus Apollonius...

2014, p. 264. Plutarch, Life of Theseus 26.3 Plutarch, Life of Theseus 26.4 Grimal 1987, p. 406. Plutarch, Life of Theseus 26.5 Plutarch, Life of Theseus...

Zeuxidamus. Plutarch, in his Parallel Lives, stated that it was in Theopompus' reign that the ephors were introduced in Sparta. Plutarch also recorded...

000-3,000 heavy infantry drawn from the wealthiest families of Carthage; Plutarch describes its members as "inferior to none among them as to birth, wealth...

handful of epigraphic and literary sources, mostly of the Roman period. Plutarch cites the name as a designation of Anubis in his underworldly aspect, while...

by her. Several of Alexander's biographers dispute the claim, including Plutarch, a highly regarded secondary source. He mentions fourteen authors, some...

("that Quartus be mute" and that he "wander, fleeing, like a mouse"). Plutarch, who described Tacita as a Muse, states that Numa Pompilius credited Tacita...

Most [= fr. 87 MW]; Ovid, Metamorphoses, 12.168–209; Apollodorus, E.1.22; Plutarch, How a Man May Become Aware of His Progress in Virtue, 75 E; Lucian, De...

the United States, with exceptions for Native American rituals. Ovid, Plutarch, Pliny, and other Latin authors, describe the sacrifice of puppies (catulina)...

"the most learned of the Romans" by Quintilian, and also recognized by Plutarch as "a man deeply read in Roman history". Varro was recognized as an important...

hovercraft with Haymitch, Finnick, an unconscious Beetee, and Head Gamemaker Plutarch Heavensbee. Haymitch reveals they are headed to District 13, which not...

survived, but his poems are referred to and quoted by such authors as Plutarch (Nicias, 5), Aristotle (Rhetoric, iii. 2), and Athenaeus (xv, p. 668, 702;...

brother without their father Helios' permission. A proverb preserved in Plutarch associates the tears of the Heliades with great wealth. Smith, s.v. Phaethontiades...

Keightley, p. 55; Alcman fr. 57 Campbell [= Plutarch, Moralia, 659 B = fr. 48 Bergk = fr. 43 Diehl] (see also Plutarch, Moralia 918 A, 940 A). According to Hard...

Arrian. Plutarch also used him as a reference. N. G. L. Hammond (13 August 2007). Sources for Alexander the Great: An Analysis of Plutarch's 'Life' and...

Cornelius Nepos, Timoleon. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, xvi.65–90. Plutarch, Life of Timoleon.  This article incorporates text from a publication now...

. Middle Platonic Antiochus Eudorus of Alexandria Philo of Alexandria Plutarch Gaius Apuleius Alcinous Galen more... Neopythagorean Nigidius Figulus Apollonius...

clad in short, rustic, girdled tunics – made of dogskin, according to Plutarch. They take a dancer's attitude, tiptoed or lightly balanced on one leg...

and because he had not, like Lykurgus, established absolute equality. — Plutarch, Life of Solon 16:1 Translation: ... [Solon], wishing to leave all magistracies...

Syros Pythagoras Xenophanes Parmenides Empedocles Socrates Plato Aratus Plutarch Plotinus Iamblichus Texts Argonautica Bibliotheca Catasterismi Corpus Hermeticum...

the practice because of their survival of the cleansing. According to Plutarch, the Boeotians considered the Thesmophoria the Festival of Sorrow, and...

dionysius_halicarnassus-roman_antiquities.1937. Retrieved 13 November 2016. Plutarch. Romulus. 19–24. Chisholm 1911, p. 1033. Tacitus. Annals. 1.54. Tacitus...

"Thaïs" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 719. Plutarch, Pericles, XXIV Joshua 2 Bicknell, Peter J. (1982). "Axiochus Alkibiadou...

Zeno. Roman philosophers include Cicero, Lucretius, Seneca the Younger, Plutarch, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, and Augustine of Hippo. Italian medieval philosophy...

therefore we cannot rule out that Arrhidaeus was not physically disabled. Plutarch was of the view that he became disabled by means of an attempt on his life...

because of rumors about her infidelity, in 63 BC, he married Marcia whom Plutarch described as "a woman of excellent reputation, about whom there was the...

Impossible III (2006). In one of his final roles before his death, he played Plutarch Heavensbee in the Hunger Games series (2013–2015). The feature film Jack...

Jebb (1889) Markantonatos 2002, pp. 206–207. Plutarch (2014). "Symposiacs". The complete works of Plutarch: essays and miscellanies, New York: Crowell...

fragments quoted in the works of later authors like Cicero, Seneca, Galen, Plutarch, and others. In 2004, segments from Logical Questions and On Providence...

. Middle Platonic Antiochus Eudorus of Alexandria Philo of Alexandria Plutarch Gaius Apuleius Alcinous Galen more... Neopythagorean Nigidius Figulus Apollonius...

sometimes reported in historical sources, such as Diodorus Siculus, Arrian and Plutarch, but only occasionally do these sources seem to quote such letters. Only...

Orcus". Most cities of Latium and Etruria contained a similar pit or ditch; Plutarch describes the custom of a mundus as being of Etruscan origin, and states...

Julian Libanius Lucian Pausanias Philostratus Phlegon of Tralles Photius Plutarch Polyaenus Polybius Porphyrius Priscus Procopius Simplicius of Cilicia Sozomen...

the form of a prophecy that Menander will build a stupa in Pataliputra. Plutarch also presents Menander as an example of benevolent rule, and explains that...

Plutarch, Parallel Lives: Life of Agis § 7.1-7.3 Plutarch, Parallel Lives: Life of Agis § 4.1 Plutarch, Parallel Lives: Life of Agis § 7.3 Plutarch,...

officer, lawyer, and justice of the peace. His translation into English of Plutarch's Parallel Lives is notable for being the main source text used by William...

said to house approximately 200,000 volumes, according to the writings of Plutarch. Built by Eumenes II between 220 and 159 BCE and situated at the northern...

predictor of fortune in battle. Plutarch. [Lives of] Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus, c. 17. In: Waterfield, Robin. Plutarch, Roman Lives, pp. 96, 453 (note...

the veins of the blessed gods", according to Aristobulus of Cassandreia Plutarch in Parallel Lives has the king himself say "This, you see, is blood, and...

in Crotone so that the Romans could not falsify the history of the war. Plutarch drew from that source. In the summer of 204 BCE the Romans arrived in Calabria...

Retrieved 2007-10-17.] Plutarch, Life of Aemilius, 34 & 38, Loeb Classical Library edition, 1918. Livy, Book XLV. Livy, xlv. 42. Plutarch, Aem. Paul. 37. Smith...

post-classical Greek literary and scholarly writing, such as the works of Plutarch and Polybius. Koine is also the language of the Septuagint (the 3rd century...

Retrieved 2009-04-18. Plutarch, Life of Lucullus, 27.7 Granius Licinianus, History of Rome, Book 33, 11 Livy, Periochae, 67.1 Plutarch, Life of Marius, 14...

who wrote in the first century BCE, Alexander had around 20,000 troops; Plutarch, who wrote between the first and second centuries CE, claims that Alexander's...

have taught the art of speaking, and even to have written a book upon it. Plutarch spoke of Pittheus's account in the following verses: [Pittheus] had the...

(Paus 3.11.9). Herodotus (Hdt. 6.67.3), Xenophon (Xen. Hell. 6.4.16), and Plutarch (Plut. Ages. 29.2), each make note of crowds gathering in a "theatre" or...

of Athens 9780903625159 13 From the Gracchi to Sulla 9780903625166 14 Plutarch: Cato the Younger 9780903625180 15 Dio: The Julio-Claudians. Selections...

killed the monster, and led his companions safely out of the Labyrinth. Plutarch in his Life of Theseus cites a rationalized version of this myth, referring...

hdl:2066/61695. JSTOR 25801887. S2CID 162876998. Wellesley 1989, p. 1. Plutarch 24.1: "the eighteenth before the Calends of February", also in Tacitus...

flowing into the Portus Achaeorum, after having joined the Simoeis. Pseudo-Plutarch (ca. 300 CE) tells us that Scamander went mad during the mysteries of Rhea...

Alexander the Great), who was seven years old at the time. According to Plutarch, Memnon and Alexander had lengthy discussions, with Alexander reportedly...

"the act of laughing". Other, later authors such as Diodorus Siculus and Plutarch say the throats of the infants were generally cut before they were placed...

the invader, and describes him through a Roman lens. Later accounts by Plutarch (early 2nd c. AD), Florus (2nd c. AD), and Cassius Dio (early 3rd c. AD)...

University. He is shown surrounded by sages, mythic and historical: Hesiod, Plato, Aristotle, Apollodorus, Tacitus, Odysseus, Ptolemy, Plutarch and Orpheus....

Julian Libanius Lucian Pausanias Philostratus Phlegon of Tralles Photius Plutarch Polyaenus Polybius Porphyrius Priscus Procopius Simplicius of Cilicia Sozomen...

Corps and AmeriCorps are also known as national service. Around 100 AD, Plutarch quoted an early case for national service made by a Roman general sometime...