41. Plutarch & The Issue Of Character By Roger Kimball Plutarch the issue of character by Roger Kimball. Click to buy the book(s). Plutarch’s best hearers form a distinguished but exceedingly various group. http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/19/dec00/plutarch.htm

the issue of character by Roger Kimball Click to buy the book(s). What Histories can be found . . . that please and instruct like the Lives of Plutarch ? . . . I am of the same Opinion with that Author, who said, that if he was constrained to fling all the Books of the Antients into the Sea, PLUTARCH should be the last drowned. L c. c. Julius Caesar Antony and Cleopatra Timon of Athens , or Coriolanus , the four plays for whose plots Shakespeare drew heavily upon the then-recently translated Plutarch. Perhaps you also, like me, dipped casually into the odd volume of Plutarch now and again, to find out more about Pericles, Cicero, Alexander the Great, or some other antique worthy. Probably, like me, you left it at that. us Doubtless there are many reasons: the shelf life of novelty, competing attractions, educational atrophy, the temper of the age. It seems clear, at any rate, that wholesale changes of taste are never merely matters of taste. They token a larger metamorphosis: new eyes, new ears, a new scale of values and literary-philosophical assumptions. It is part of the baffling cruelty of fashion to render mute what only yesterday spoke with such extraordinary force and persuasiveness. It is part of the task of criticism to reanimate those voices, to provide that peculiar medium through which they might seem to speak in the way their best, their most ardent hearers understood them. P IV Life of Johnson I prefer to do without the company and remembrance of books, for fear they may interfere with my style. . . . But it is harder for me to do without Plutarch. He is so universal and so full that on all occasions, and however eccentric the subject you have taken up, he makes his way into your work and offers you a liberal hand, inexhaustible in riches and embellishments. It vexes me that I am so greatly exposed to pillage by those who frequent him. I cannot be with him even a little without taking out a drumstick or a wing.

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

43. Bucephalus , Plutarch Bucephalus, Plutarch Philonicus the Thessalian brought the horse Bucephalus to Philip, offering to sell him for thirteen talents http://www.1stmuse.com/alex3/bucephalus.html

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

44. 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 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

45. The Total Solar Eclipse Described By Plutarch The Total Solar Eclipse Described by Plutarch 1. FR Stephenson and LJ Plutarch s description of the eclipse. In this account, which 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.

46. Plutarch's Pyrrhus And Euripides' Phoenician Women Plutarch s Pyrrhus and Euripides Phoenician Women Biography and Tragedy on Pleonectic Parenting. Section 2 Approaching Plutarch s Pyrrhus. 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

47. Plutarch • Life Of Caesar This webpage reproduces one of The Parallel Lives by Plutarch published in the Loeb Classical Library, 1919 Plutarch, The Parallel Lives. http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Li

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.

48. Plutarch • Life Of Alexander This webpage reproduces one of The Parallel Lives by Plutarch published in the Loeb Classical Library, 1919 Plutarch, The Parallel Lives. The Life of Alexander. http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Li

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! next section This webpage contains text in accented Greek, using a burned-in font. If it is not displaying properly, you need to use a compliant browser rather than Internet Explorer. Plutarch, The Parallel Lives The Life of Alexander It is the life of Alexander the king, and of Caesar , who overthrew Pompey, that I am writing in this book, and the multitude of the deeds to be treated is so great that I shall make no other preface than to entreat my readers, in case I do not tell of all the famous actions of these men, nor even speak exhaustively at all in each particular case, but in epitome for the most part, not to complain. For it is not Histories that I am writing, but Lives; and in the most illustrious deeds there is not always a manifestation of virtue or vice, nay, a slight thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of character than battles when thousands fall, or the greatest armaments, or sieges of cities.

49. Plutarch --  Encyclopædia Britannica Plutarch Encyclopædia Britannica Article. To cite this page MLA style Plutarch. Encyclopædia Britannica. 2004. Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=62000&tocid=0

50. Cicero By Plutarch Cicero by Plutarch. Buy more than 2,000 books on a single CDROM for only $19.99. That s less then a penny per book! by Plutarch. translated by John Dryden. 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.

51. - Great Books - Plutarch (45120), Plutarch, historian, around AD 46-120, born at Chaeronea, Boeotia, in Greece during the Roman Empire. Plutarch http://www.malaspina.com/site/person_942.asp

Plutarch Plutarch, historian, around A.D. 46-120, born at Chaeronea, Boeotia, in Greece during the Roman Empire. Plutarch travelled widely in the Mediterranean world until he returned to Boeotia, becoming a priest at the temple of Apollo at Delphi. His most important historical work is the Parallel Lives , in which he arranges 46 biographies of leading Greeks and leading Romans in tandem to illuminate their shared moral virtues or failings. This moralizing approach to history makes it difficult to rely on Plutarch for certain kinds of details, though his dates are not usually troublesome. After having been trained in philosophy at Athens he travelled and stayed some time at Rome, where he lectured on philosophy and undertook the education of Hadrian. Trajan bestowed consular rank upon him, and Hadrian appointed him procurator of Greece. He died in his native town, where he was archon and priest of the Pythian Apollo. In the Consolation to his Wife on the loss of his young daughter, he tells us that they had brought up four sons besides, one of whom was called by the name of Plutarch's brother, Lamprias. We learn incidentally from this treatise that the writer had been initiated in the secret mysteries of Dionysus, which held that the soul was imperishable. He seems to have been an independent thinker rather than an adherent of any particular school of philosophy. His vast acquaintance with the literature of his time is everywhere apparent.

52. 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 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.

53. Plutarch Plutarch. Plutarch (c.45c.125) was a Greek historian. Plutarch s writings had enormous influence on English and French literature. http://www.fact-index.com/p/pl/plutarch.html

Main Page See live article Alphabetical index Plutarch Plutarch (c. -c. ) was a Greek historian Born at Chaeronea , in the Greek region of Boeotia , probably during the reign of the Roman Emperor Claudius , Mestrius Plutarch travelled widely in the Mediterranean world, later lecturing at Rome for an extended period and making friends with influential persons at Rome, to whom some of his later writings were dedicated. Among these were Soscius Senecio and Fundanus, important members of the Senate whom Plutarch regarded as patrons and friends. Returning to Chaeronea, he was initiated into the mysteries of the Greek god Apollo . However his duties as one of the two priests of Apollo at the Oracle of Delphi (where he was responsible for interpreting the auguries of the Pythia or priestess/oracle) apparently occupied little of his time - he led a most active social and civic life and produced an incredible body of writings, much of which is still extant. In addition to his duties as a priest of the Delphic temple, Plutarch was also a magistrate in Chaeronea and he represented his home on various missions to foreign countries during his early adult years. His friend Lucius Mestrius Florus, a Roman consul, sponsored Plutarch as a Roman citizen and, late in life, the Emperor Trajan apparently appointed him as procurator of Achaea - a position that entitled him to wear the vestments and ornaments of a consul himself. His best-known work is Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans , a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving

54. Ancient History Sourcebook: Plutarch: The Training Of Children, C. 110 CE Back to Ancient History Sourcebook . Ancient History Sourcebook Plutarch The Training of Children, c. 110 CE. Thatcher Introduction 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

55. Plutarch Plutarch. Greek biographer and essayist. He is themes. Plutarch had a profound influence on Renaissance thought and literature. This http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0012872.html

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56. Plutarch Texts: Life Of Romulus Search. Ancient / Classical History Plutarch s Parallel Lives. Romulus. the world. Return to Primary Texts Index Plutarch Contents. http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_text_plutarch_romulus.htm

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57. Plutarch's Life Of Numa Pompilius Search. Ancient / Classical History Plutarch s Parallel Lives. Numa Pompilius. thunderbolt. Return to Primary Texts Index Plutarch Contents. http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_text_plutarch_numa.htm

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58. Biography Search PDF Plutarch An Argument for Network Pluralism http://search.biography.com/print_record.pl?id=10412

59. Arts - Literature: Plutarch Plutarch (circa 45125 AD). Greece, by Hadrian. The study and judgment of lives was always of paramount importance for Plutarch. In http://www.archaeonia.com/arts/literature/plutarch.htm

PLUTARCH (circa 45-125 A.D.) G reece , by the turn of the 1st millenium , was a sad ruin of its former glory. Mighty Rome had looted its statues and reduced Greece to conquered territory. Despite these circumstances, Mestrius Plutarchus (known to history as Plutarch ) lived a long and fruitful life with his wife and family in the little Greek town of Chaeronea For many years Plutarch served as one of the two priests at the temple of Apollo at Delphi (the site of the famous Delphic Oracle) twenty miles from his home. By his writings and lectures Plutarch became a celebrity in the Roman empire, yet he continued to reside where he was born, and actively participated in local affairs, even serving as mayor. At his country estate, guests from all over the empire congregated for serious conversation, presided over by Plutarch in his marble chair. Many of these dialogues were recorded and published, and the 78 essays and other works which have survived are now known collectively as the Moralia After the horrors of Nero and Domitian , and the partisan passions of civil war, Rome was ready for some gentle enlightenment from the priest of Apollo . Plutarch's essays and his lectures established him as a leading thinker in the Roman empire's golden age: the reigns of Nerva Trajan , and Hadrian The study and judgment of lives was always of paramount importance for Plutarch. In the Moralia, Plutarch expresses a belief in

60. Plutarch: A Who2 Profile Plutarch • Biographer / Historian. Plutarch times. Hence Plutarch has been a favorite of scholars and schoolteachers for centuries. http://www.who2.com/plutarch.html

PLUTARCH Biographer / Historian Plutarch is the most famous biographer of the ancient world and the author of a famous collection now known as Plutarch's Lives . Plutarch's original title was Parallel Lives of Famous Greeks and Romans , and that describes his unique approach: the biographies are presented in pairs, the life of one Greek contrasted with that of a similar Roman. Plutarch's subjects were statesmen, generals and public figures including Alexander the Great , Solon, Pyrrhus and Marc Antony , and together the biographies present a basic history of all Greece and Rome up to Plutarch's times. Hence Plutarch has been a favorite of scholars and schoolteachers for centuries. Plutarch's other famous work is the Morals , a collection of essays on topics ranging from religion and zoology to marriage. 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

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