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21. Plutarch's ALEXANDER
ALEXANDER 356323 B.C. by plutarch (79 AD) translated by John Dryden text source image source. IT being my purpose to write the lives of Alexander the
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ALEXANDER 356-323 B.C.
by Plutarch (79 AD)
translated by John Dryden
text source image source 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.

22. Straight Dope Staff Report: Did Spartan Mothers Really Tell Their Sons, "With Yo
1) plutarch says, explicitly, that his purpose is not to write political In his work plutarch consistently portrays the Spartans as having a tough,
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23-Sep-2003 Dear Straight Dope: W ith it or on it." We've all heard that Spartan mothers said it while giving their sons shields before their first battle. With it = victorious hero; on it = fallen hero; without it = coward. I've heard this quote attributed to Herodotus, but I've never seen any specific reference. It's consistent with modern conceptions of Sparta, but is it real? Is it just an old wives' tale concocted to make us believe our own mothers aren't so bad? HCPIII Guest contributor Una Persson replies: You've got a point. After you hear about the mothers of Sparta, it's hard to believe your own mom is so bad because she makes you drink your milk. Your question is more complex than it might seem. To answer it properly, several different aspects must be considered. First where and when does the quote first appear? T h at part is easy. Typically translated as

23. Plutarch: Lives Of The Noble Grecians And Romans By Clough And Plutarch - Projec
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25. Cicero By Plutarch
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26. Mike Huckabee’s Weight Loss Scam « Plutarch’s Weblog
evidence put together at plutarchs Weblog is long and convincing, but heres the summary of it Weve considered a host of clinical
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28. Bucephalus , Plutarch
Bucephalus, plutarch. Philonicus the Thessalian brought the horse Bucephalus to Philip, offering to sell him for thirteen talents; but when they went into
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29. The Total Solar Eclipse Described By Plutarch
In his dialogue On the face on the moon 2, the Greek biographer, historian and philosopher, plutarch (ca. A.D. 45120), gives a vivid description of a
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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.

31. Plutarch: Free Web Books, Online
Although plutarch has sometimes been disparaged by later historians, he was not concerned with writing history, as such, but in exploring the influence of
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Greek historian, born at Chaeronea, Boeotia, in Greece, during the reign of the Roman Emperor Claudius. His most important work is Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans , a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The Parallel Lives, as they are also called, contain 23 pairs of biographies, each pair containing one Greek Life and one Roman Life; as well as 4 unpaired single Lives. Although Plutarch has sometimes been disparaged by later historians, he was not concerned with writing history, as such, but in exploring the influence of character - good or bad - on the lives and destinies of famous men. The remainder of his surviving oeuvre is loosely grouped together under the misleading title of Moralia . It is an eclectic collection of over one hundred essays including On the decline of the Oracles On God's slowness to punish evil On peace of mind and Odysseus and Gryllus , a humorous dialog between Homer's Ulysses and one of Circe's enchanted pigs.

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plutarch was a Greek writer who lived from 46 to 120 AD. To quote from the Philip s World History Encyclopedia, his bestknown work is his Parallel Lives,
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Plutarch was a Greek writer who lived from 46 to 120 AD. To quote from the Philip's World History Encyclopedia, "his best-known work is his Parallel Lives, which consists of paired biographies of famous Greeks and Romans. Shakespeare used it as the source for his Roman history plays." Charlotte Mason categorized Plutarch's Lives under Citizenship rather than under history, because his biographies are more concerned with character and leadership qualities than they are with pure historical details. That is not to say that you can't learn a great deal of history from them; and in fact, Plutarch is one major source of the historical information we do have on many events. But for our purposes, we read Plutarch for some of the ideas and life-lessons his biographies offer, rather than as a history course. It's a look at what motivated some of the famous figures of the ancient world, what they did right, and where they went wrong.

33. Plutarch, Alcibiades
plutarch of Chaeronea (2nd half of the first century A.D.) lived much later than the events he wrote about in this biography, but he clearly had access to
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ALCIBIADES 450-404 B.C. translated by John Dryden Introductory Note Plutarch of Chaeronea (2nd half of the first century A.D.) lived much later than the events he wrote about in this biography, but he clearly had access to many sources which no longer survive in the present day. For the most part, he was a philosopher rather than an historian, interested primarily in the characters of his subjects; the name given to a large corpus of his philosphical works, the Moralia , is a further indication of his penchant for considerations of ethics and proper behaviour. Plutarch's accuracy on historical matters is a matter of dispute among historians, but he is reasonably reliable. The translation offered here may well seem archaic at points, but this should not pose serious problems most of the time, and it is not unpleasant to read Dryden's poetic translations of the poetry cited with some frequency by Plutarch. The electronic text version of this translation comes from the Eris Project at Virginia Tech, which has made it available for public use. The hypertext version presented here has been designed for students of Ancient History at the University of Calgary. I have added chapter and section numbers (to facilitate specific citation or to find a specific passage from a citation; note: the section numbers of a Greek text do not always fit as smoothly as one might like into a translation) and the internal links (to allow navigation); Dryden's paragraphs have been adopted here, with occasional minor modifications. Another HTML version of the complete text, with no numeration or internal links if you prefer this, is available at the

34. The Baldwin Project: Our Young Folks' Plutarch By Rosalie Kaufman
Fifty retellings from plutarch s Lives skillfully adapted for children. Includes the conquests of Alexander the Great, how Demosthenes became an orator,
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35. Plutarch - Crystalinks
Born in the small town of Chaeronea, in the Greek region known as Boeotia, probably during the reign of the Roman Emperor Claudius, plutarch travelled
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Mestrius Plutarchus (ca. 46- 127) was a Greek historian, biographer, and essayist. Born in the small town of Chaeronea, in the Greek region known as Boeotia, probably during the reign of the Roman Emperor Claudius, Plutarch travelled widely in the Mediterranean world, including twice to Rome. He had a number of influential Roman friends, including Soscius Senecio and Fundanus, both important Senators, to whom some of his later writings were dedicated. He lived most of his life at Chaeronea, and was initiated into the mysteries of the Greek god Apollo. However his duties as the senior 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. Among his approximately 227 works, the most important are the Bioi paralleloi ( Parallel Lives ), in which he recounts the noble deeds and characters of Greek and Roman soldiers, legislators, orators, and statesmen, and the Moralia, or Ethica, a series of more than 60 essays on ethical, religious, physical, political, and literary topics. Life Plutarch was the son of Aristobulus, himself a biographer and philosopher. In 66-67, Plutarch studied mathematics and philosophy at Athens under the philosopher Ammonius. Public duties later took him several times to Rome, where he lectured on philosophy, made many friends, and perhaps enjoyed the acquaintance of the emperors Trajan and Hadrian. According to the Suda lexicon (a Greek dictionary dating c. AD 1000), Trajan bestowed the high rank of an ex-consul upon him. Although this may be true, a report of a 4th-century church historian, Eusebius, that Hadrian made Plutarch governor of Greece is probably apocryphal.

36. Plutarch - MSN Encarta
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Encyclopedia Article Find in this article View printer-friendly page E-mail Multimedia 1 item Plutarch (c. 46-120), Greek biographer and essayist, born in Chaeronea in Boeotia. He was educated in Athens and is believed to have travelled to Egypt and Italy and to have lectured in Rome on moral philosophy. He frequently visited Athens and was a priest in the temple at Delphi. He spent the later years of his life at Chaeronea, where he held municipal office. Many of the treatises he wrote are probably based on his lecture notes. To his students, Plutarch was regarded as a genial guide, philosopher, and spiritual director. His extant works, written in a modified Attic, a so-called common dialect, fall into two principal classes: the didactic essays and dialogues, grouped under the title of

37. Plutarch & The Issue Of Character By Roger Kimball
plutarch the issue of character by Roger Kimball.
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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.

38. Learning To Give - Quotes By Plutarch
plutarch Quotes. plutarch Greek essayist and biographer (A.D. 46A.D. 120) -More quotes about Perserverance; Socrates said he was not an Athenian
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39. Plutarch - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary)
plutarch of Chaeronea (46CEc.122CE) influential Greek philosopher and author, well known for his biographies and his moral treatises.
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40. Plutarch - RWE.org - The Complete Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson
plutarch.1 IT is remarkable that of an author so familiar as plutarch, not only to scholars, but to all reading men, and whose history is so easily gathered
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