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  1. Plutarch'sLives, X: Agis and Cleomenes. Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus. Philopoemen and Flamininus (Loeb Classical Library®) (Greek and English Edition) by Plutarch, 1921-01-01
  2. Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Plutarch's Lives, improved 8/11/2010 by Plutarch, 2008-01-06
  3. Plutarch's Lives Volume 1 (Modern Library Classics) by Plutarch, 2001-04-10
  4. Plutarch Lives, IX, Demetrius and Antony. Pyrrhus and Gaius Marius (Loeb Classical Library) by Plutarch, 1920-01-01
  5. Plutarch's Lives: Part 12 Harvard Classics by Plutarch, 2004-01-11
  6. Plutarch: Moralia, Volume XIII, Part 2. Stoic Essays (Loeb Classical Library No. 470) by Plutarch, 1976-01-01
  7. Shakespeare's Plutarch; being a selection from the lives in North's Plutarch which illustrate Shakespeare's plays by Plutarch Plutarch, Thomas North, et all 2010-09-09
  8. Plutarch's Lives, Volume II
  9. The Platonism of Plutarch by Roger Miller Jones, 2009-03-09
  10. Selected Lives from the Parallel Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarch,
  11. Plutarch's Lives for Boys and Girls by W H Weston, 2010-01-01
  12. Complete Works of Plutarch - Volume 3; Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch, 2010-03-06
  13. Plutarch's Lives Complete in One Volume (Halcyon Classics) by Plutarch, 2010-07-13
  14. Sources for Alexander the Great: An Analysis of Plutarch's 'Life' and Arrian's 'Anabasis Alexandrou' (Cambridge Classical Studies) by N. G. L. Hammond, 2007-08-13

41. 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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42. Underbelly: Plutarch On Kindness
One person who shared a taste for kindness was Plutarch, the essayist and biographer, so beloved of Shakespeare for his unerring skill at identifying a good
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Plutarch on Kindness
As I get older, I tend to admire brilliance less and kindness more. This may be just selfishness: I am less and less likely to be brilliant (if I ever was likely to be) and I probably find (or expect to find) myself more in need of kindness. Plutarch thought Cato a good man in so many ways, but he does notice one odd or unexpected quirk. Plutarch sees fit to pause and reflect on the point: For my own part I regard his conduct towards his slaves in treating them like beasts of burden, exploiting them to the limits of their strength, and then, when they were old, driving them off and selling them, as the mark of a thoroughly ungenerous nature, which cannot recognize any bond between man and man but that of necessity. And yet we see that kindness possesses a far wider sphere of action than justice, for it is in the nature of things that law and justice are confined to our dealings with our fellow men, whereas kindness and charity, which often flow from a gentle nature like water form an abundant spring, may be extended even to dumb animals. A kindly man will take good care of his horses even when they are worn out in his service, and will look after his dogs not only when they are puppies, but when they need special treatment. For my part, I would not sell even my draught ox simply because of his age, far less turn out an old man from the home and the way of life to which he has grown accustomed for the sake of a few paltry coins, especially since he would be of no more use to the buyer than he was to the seller.

43. Plutarch On The Eating Of Flesh
Plutarch (c. 46120) was educated in Athens and lectured in Rome. Best known for his Lives a series of biographies of famous philosophers and
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THE EATING OF FLESH [Plutarch (c. 46-120) was educated in Athens and lectured in Rome. Best known for his "Lives" a series of biographies of famous philosophers and politicians Plutarch was also an esteemed philosopher in his own right. This essay is among his most frequently cited works.] TRACT I
You ask of me then for what reason it was that Pythagoras abstained from eating of flesh. I for my part do much wonder in what humor, with what soul or reason, the first man with his mouth touched slaughter, and reached to his lips the flesh of a dead animal, and having set before people courses of ghastly corpses and ghosts, could give those parts the names of meat and victuals, that but a little before lowed, cried, moved, and saw; how his sight could endure the blood of slaughtered, flayed, and mangled bodies; how his smell could bear their scent; and how the very nastiness happened not to offend the taste, while it chewed the sores of others, and participated of the saps and juices of deadly wounds.
Crept the raw hides, and with a bellowing sound

44. Quoteland :: Quotations By Author
Books by and about Plutarch Engrave a Quote Click this icon to engrave the quote on mugs, Plutarch, AEMILIUS PAULUS translated by John Dryden
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45. Plutarch, Pericles
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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PERICLES 490?-429 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

46. Plutarch - Wikiquote
Wikisource has original works written by or about Plutarch. Plutarch at Project Gutenberg. Retrieved from http//en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Plutarch
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Jump to: navigation search Mestrius Plutarchos (ca. ) was a Greek historian, biographer, and essayist.
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  • The abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and money began to play an important part in determining elections.
    • The Roman Republic Pompey had fought brilliantly and in the end routed Caesar's whole force... but either he was unable to or else he feared to push on. Caesar [said] to his friends: 'Today the enemy would have won, if they had had a commander who was a winner.'
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      • A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me."
        • Aemilius Paulus, sec. 29 And it is said that when he took his seat for the first time under the golden canopy on the royal throne, Demaratus the Corinthian, a well-meaning man and a friend of Alexander's, as he had been of Alexander's father, burst into tears, as old men will, and declared that those Hellenes were deprived of great pleasure who had died before seeing Alexander seated on the throne of Dareius.
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47. Plutarch Texts: Life Of Alexander
English translation of Plutarch s Life of Alexander.
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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 honor, above all other gods, to Ammon; and was told he should one day lose that eye with which he presumed to peep through the 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.

48. Malaspina Great Books - Plutarch (45)
Plutarch, historian, around AD 46120, born at Chaeronea, Boeotia, in Greece during the Roman Empire. Plutarch travelled widely in the Mediterranean world
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49. Plutarch On Biography
Plutarch, Life of Alexander the Great Chapter 1. My subject in this book is the life of Plutarch, Life of Demetrius the Besieger chapter 2
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PLUTARCH, on BIOGRAPHY
Plutarch, "Life of Alexander the Great" Chapter 1:
"My subject in this book is the life of Alexander the King [356-323], and of Julius Caesar [100-44], the conqueror of Pompey the Great [106-48]. The careers of these men embrace such a multitude of events that my preamble shall consist of nothing more than this one plea: if I do not record all their most celebrated achievements [i.e. Annals] or describe any one of them exhaustively [i.e. monograph], but merely summarize for the most part what they accomplished, I ask my readers not to regard this as a fault. For I am writing BIOGRAPHY, not HISTORY, and the truth is that the most brilliant exploits often tell us nothing of the virtues or vices of the men who performed them, while on the other hand a chance remark or a joke may reveal far more of A MAN'S CHARACTER than the mere feat of winning battles in which thousands fall, or of marshalling great armies, or laying siege to cities.
When a portrait painter sets out to create a likeness, he relies above all upon the face and the expression of the eyes, and pays less attention to the other parts of the body. In the same way, it is my intention to dewll upon THOSE ACTIONS WHICH ILLUMINATE THE WORKINGS OF THE SOUL, and by this means to create a portrait of each man's life. I leave the story of his greatest struggles and achievements to be told by others...."

50. Full Text - Plutarch's "Numa Pompilius," Ca. 75 C.E.
Plutarch (46 119 CE) Plutarch was a biographer and author whose works strongly influenced the evolution of the essay, the biography, and historical
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Numa Pompilius, ca. 75 C.E. Plutarch (46 - 119 CE) Plutarch was a biographer and author whose works strongly influenced the evolution of the essay, the biography, and historical writing in Europe from the 16th to the 19th century. Among his approximately 227 works, the most important are the Bioi parall e loi 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. He was born in Chaeronea, Boeotia [Greece]. His name is Plutarchos (Greek) and Plutarchus (Latin) Numa Pompilius lived around 700 B.C.E. and was the second of the seven kings who, according to Roman tradition, ruled Rome before the founding of the Republic ( c . 509 B.C.E.). He is said to have reigned from 715 to 673. He is credited with the formulation of the religious calendar and with the founding of Rome's other early religious institutions, including the Vestal Virgins; the cults of Mars, Jupiter, and Romulus deified (Quirinus); and the office of pontifex maximus . These developments were actually, however, the result of centuries of religious accretion. According to legend, Numa is the peaceful counterpart of the more bellicose Romulus (the legendary founder of Rome), whom he succeeded after an interregnum of one year. His supposed relationship with Pythagoras was known even in the Roman Republic to be chronologically impossible, and the 14 books relating to philosophy and religious (pontifical) law that were uncovered in 181 BC and attributed to him were clearly forgeries.

51. Plutarch Quotes And Quotations Compiled By GIGA
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A constant friend is a thing rare and hard to find.
Friends

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
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A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need. Friends A healer of others, himself diseased. Proverbs A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress. Love A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech. Silence A shortcut to riches is to subtract from our desires. Wealth A Spartan, being asked why his people drank so little, replied: "That we may consult concerning others, and not others concerning us." Temperance Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior. Friends Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance.

52. Harvard University Press: Parallel Lives, I : Theseus And Romulus. Lycurgus And
Parallel Lives, I Theseus and Romulus. Lycurgus and Numa. Solon and Publicola by Plutarch, published by Harvard University Press.
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Theseus and Romulus. Lycurgus and Numa. Solon and Publicola
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    CE , was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given consular rank by the emperor Trajan and a procuratorship in Greece by Hadrian. He was married and the father of one daughter and four sons. He appears as a man of kindly character and independent thought, studious and learned. Plutarch wrote on many subjects. Most popular have always been the 46 Parallel Lives , biographies planned to be ethical examples in pairs (in each pair, one Greek figure and one similar Roman), though the last four lives are single. All are invaluable sources of our knowledge of the lives and characters of Greek and Roman statesmen, soldiers and orators. Plutarch's many other varied extant works, about 60 in number, are known as Moralia or Moral Essays. They are of high literary value, besides being of great use to people interested in philosophy, ethics and religion. The Loeb Classical Library edition of the Lives is in eleven volumes.

53. 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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54. Now's The Time
Old ones with their associations and familiarity, their knowledge of your protrusions and inclinations, are irreplaceable. Posted by Plutarch at 410 PM 0
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Inspired by Clare's Blogspot, Three Beautiful Things, I will, day by day, describe things I have enjoyed. Please add yours.
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
covers, sunny side, bubbles
I have been looking at those covers in the street, which give access to drains, ducts, cables and the like. They could, I fantasize, be gateways to the underworld. Engraved on the wrought surfaces are the names of their manufacturers, such as Guest and Chrimes of Rotherham, Thomas Dudley Ltd.
In Calverley Precinct people drift over to the side where the sun is shining and desert entirely the shady side.
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Monday, March 31, 2008
origins, gardening, child noises
In Robert Birchfield's elegant book The English Language, I come across the derivation of the word "daffodil". Although there is no close botanical connection with the asphodels of the lilly family, the word apparently comes from "asphodel", having evolved from that into its present form, via "affodil".
There is a neighbouring front garden which (pleasing to me) is neglected. Earlier this year, violets grew profusely, and now prodigious dandelions are opening like aspiring sunflowers, as though cultivated with love and patience. In a way this garden answers Barrett Bonden's comment yesterday. A man accustomed to wind in the rigging, rope and tar, a tilting deck, the creak of rowlocks, the rudder under his hand and salt spray over his shoulder, may leave the land to landsmen, without guilt or misgiving. For want of the sailor's hand, the rose will flourish and the oak not perish.

55. Grasping Reality With Both Hands: Economist Brad DeLong's Fair, Balanced, And Re
Plutarch thought Cato a good man in so many ways, but he does notice one Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Buce on Plutarch on Kindness
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Buce writes: Underbelly: Plutarch on Kindness For my own part I regard his conduct towards his slaves in treating them like beasts of burden, exploiting them to the limits of their strength, and then, when they were old, driving them off and selling them, as the mark of a thoroughly ungenerous nature, which cannot recognize any bond between man and man but that of necessity. And yet we see that kindness possesses a far wider sphere of action than justice, for it is in the nature of things that law and justice are confined to our dealings with our fellow men, whereas kindness and charity, which often flow from a gentle nature like water form an abundant spring, may be extended even to dumb animals. A kindly man will take good care of his horses even when they are worn out in his service, and will look after his dogs not only when they are puppies, but when they need special treatment. For my part, I would not sell even my draught ox simply because of his age, far less turn out an old man from the home and the way of life to which he has grown accustomed for the sake of a few paltry coins, especially since he would be of no more use to the buyer than he was to the seller...

56. Proclaim The Great Pan Is Dead
Plutarch puts a date to the incident. He says it was in the reign of Emperor Tiberius, a decade or two before Plutarch himself was born.
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Proclaim the Great Pan is dead
In a time when right is weak, we may be thankful if might assumes a form of gentleness
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I t was in the haze of an overcast morning. The season had already advanced and most of the shipping in the Aegean had ceased for the winter. Plutarch puts a date to the incident. He says it was in the reign of Emperor Tiberius, a decade or two before Plutarch himself was born. The crew on a merchant vessel, passing under the islands of Echinades, suddenly heard a mysterious voice calling out from the distant shore. It called out three times, when you reach Palodes proclaim that the great god Pan is dead Plutarch Why was this so memorable for Plutarch? Was he aware that the times were about to change; that his own, not altogether golden age had come to an end? That the mountains seemed no longer so tall anymore? That the length of the shadows grew and the rivers ran shallow?
Reading Plutarch (c.46-120 AD.) leaves fond memories, of a gentle man, " one of the most charming, most fully informed, and altogether most effective writers of antiquity. Sprung from a family of means in a small Boetian country-town, and introduced to the full impact of Hellenic culture, first at home and then at Athens and Alexandria, and familiar with Roman affairs through his studies and a multitude of personal relations, as well as from his travels to Italy, he disdained to enter into the service of the Empire or to adopt the common career of gifted Greeks. He remained faithful to his home, enjoying domestic life, in the best sense of the word, with his wonderful wife and his children, and with his friends, male and female, and was content with the offices and honors which his own Boeotia was able to offer him, and with his modest property he had inherited

57. The Volokh Conspiracy - From Plutarch's Life Of Solon
In college we generally referred to it as Plutarch s Lies. Dear Eugene, Thank you very clarifying that the paragraph break wasn t Plutarch s own.
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Who Are We? Subscribe E-Mail Policy ... Home document.write(''); Eugene Volokh January 24, 2008 at 1:47pm Trackbacks From Plutarch's Life of Solon (paragraph break added): [Anacharsis] laughed at [Solon] for imagining the dishonesty and covetousness of his countrymen could be restrained by written laws, which were like spiders' webs, and would catch, it is true, the weak and poor, but easily be broken by the mighty and rich. To this Solon rejoined that men keep their promises when neither side can get anything by the breaking of them; and he would so fit his laws to the citizens, that all should understand it was more eligible to be just than to break the laws. But the event rather agreed with the conjecture of Anacharsis than Solon's hope. Thanks to my colleague and former teacher Bill McGovern for the pointer. link Mary Katherine Day-Petrano ( mail What's the point of this thread? Is this some sort of UCLA law school final exam question or something? link John Kindley ( mail www The point, as I read it, is similar to that of Albert Jay Nock's book Our Enemy, The State: namely, that the State has always originated and still consists, not in an effort to restrain the stronger/richer from exploiting the weaker/poorer, but in the project of enabling the stronger/richer to more effectively oppress and exploit the weaker/poorer. It's good to see a "respectable" libertarian making that point. link The ability to evade laws is a good like any other, and thus more readily available to those with the means to purchase greater amounts of goods. Very nice quote. I shall have to read more Plutarch.

58. Plutarch On LibraryThing | Catalog Your Books Online
196 copies, 0 review; Plutarch on Sparta 101 copies, 0 review; Roman lives a selection of eight There are 26 conversations about Plutarch s books.
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59. Plutarch - Simple English Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Plutarch was born to a prominent family in Chaeronea, Boeotia Greece, a town about twenty miles east of Delphi. His work consists of the Parallel Lives and
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60. Nutritional Sex Control & Rejuvenation
Wine and meat blunt the soul, wrote Plutarch in defense of Pythagorean vegetarianism. . . . Gandhi, like Tolstoy, offers a modern example of a philosopher
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Mokelumne Hill, CA: Health Research, n.d. . . . Since time immemorial, religious devotees abstained from meat or fasted for the purpose of controlling sexual impulses, and this explains the customs of abstention from meat and fasting during certain religious holidays. The ancient Orphics, Pythagoreans, Essenes, Gnostics, neo-Platonists, and Manichaeans all practiced vegetarianism in order to succeed in the practice of continence, which they regarded as essential for achieving the highest degree of physical and spiritual regeneration.
Pythagoras, who was born a physiologist and a moral reformer, was the first to claim that protein foods augment sexual inclinations and that a low-protein, strictly vegetarian diet was essential for all who wish to live in continence and experience the beneficial effects of this practice in leading to better brain nutrition and in heightening intellectual and spiritual powers.
Pythagoras taught that there was a direct connection between the semen and the brain and that loss of semen weakens the brain, while its conservation improves the brain's nutrition, since the substances thus conserved act as brain nutrients.
We now know that this is a physiological fact which the intuition of Pythagoras foresaw centuries ago since lecithin, an organic phosphorized fat which is a chief constituent of brain and nerve tissue, is an essential component of the semen and is lost with it. This means that the greater the seminal excretion, the more lecithin is lost from the blood and consequently from the brain; whereas conservation of semen through continence leads to better lecithin (organic phosphorus) brain nutrition and increased intellectual energy. Since a low-protein diet diminishes the tendency of seminal excretion, it helps conserve lecithin for brain nutrition.

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