Saints Plutarch, Serenus, Heraclides, Heron, Serenus, Rhais, Potamiœna and Marcella (died between 202-205 AD) were Christian martyrs in Egypt under the...
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OCLC 959667246. Stadter, Philip A. (2014). "Plutarch and Rome". In Beck, Mark (ed.). A Companion to Plutarch. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Wiley Blackwell...
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Parallel Lives (redirect from Plutarch's Lives)
philosopher, historian, and Apollonian priest Plutarch, probably at the beginning of the second century. It is also known as Plutarch's Lives (Πλούταρχου Βίοι...
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Custodia, today the Polizia Penitenziaria, the Prison Guards. Plutarch and companions "The History of the Virgin Potamiaena" . The paradise, or garden...
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They include the histories of Livy, Plutarch, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and Tacitus as well as the work of Virgil and Ovid. Quintus Fabius Pictor's work...
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Theseus (category Articles having different image on Wikidata and Wikipedia)
Acropolis. Plutarch's Life of Theseus makes use of varying accounts of the death of the Minotaur, Theseus's escape, and his romantic involvement with and betrayal...
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Battle of the Granicus (section Account of Plutarch)
which guarded the right flank of the Foot Companions next to them. There were six units of Foot Companions: led by Perdiccas, Coenus, Craterus, Amyntas...
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Moralia (redirect from Table Talk (Plutarch))
1st-century scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea. The eclectic collection contains 78 essays and transcribed speeches. They provide insights into Roman and Greek life...
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On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & the Heroic in History (redirect from On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History)
Oikonomopoúlou, Aikaterínī (2019). "Plutarch and the Victorians". Brill's companion to the reception of Plutarch. Brill's companions to classical reception. Leiden...
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Ares (category Articles having different image on Wikidata and Wikipedia)
Harper and Brothers, 1898. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis, in Plutarch's morals, Volume V, edited and translated...
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Alexander the Great (section Lineage and childhood)
Second Persian War by Xerxes; Plutarch and Diodorus allege that Alexander's companion, the hetaera Thaïs, instigated and started the fire. Even as he watched...
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Hephaestion (section Youth and education)
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,...
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Sparta (category States and territories disestablished in the 2nd century BC)
pederasty: their ethics and their ideas), Sauerländer, 1907, 441, 444. ISBN 978-3921495773 Plutarch, Life of Lycurgus 18. Readers Companion Military Hist p....
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beating. It was intensely competitive, and the boys were encouraged to use violence against each other; by Plutarch's account, this included sexual violence...
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of Publius Clodius Pulcher, as governor of Cyprus in 58. According to Plutarch, Brutus was instrumental in assisting the administration of the province...
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Sisygambis and his daughters Stateira II and Drypetis. Alexander is reported to have treated them with great respect. According to Plutarch, Stateira died...
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ISBN 978-0-14-139076-5. Plutarch (1919). Perrin, Bernadotte (ed.). Plutarch, Alexander. Perseus Project. Retrieved 6 December 2011. Plutarch (1936). Babbitt,...
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Pericles (section Last military operations and death)
Orators C.M.J. Sicking, Distant Companions, 133 I. Kakridis, Interpretative comments on the Funeral Oration, 6 Plutarch, Pericles, VIII Suda, article Pericles...
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Marcus Licinius Crassus (section Family and background)
accords him or his father the Dives cognomen; Plutarch says his great wealth was acquired rather than inherited, and that he was raised in modest circumstances...
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Demetrius I Poliorcetes (section Plutarch)
from a misreading of Plutarch's Life of Demetrius which is about Demetrius Poliorcetes and not Demetrius of Phalereus. Plutarch describes in the work...
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list, Marsyas of Pella, Theopompos, and Justin all agree that Caranus was Perdiccas' father. Furthermore, Plutarch claimed in his biography of Alexander...
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Diogenes (category Ancient Greek slaves and freedmen)
Plutarch, On Exile, 5.; Epictetus, Discourses, i.9.1. Laërtius 1925, §63 Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling, by Ross King Hugh Grady, "A Companion to...
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by and associated with figures such as Benjamin Rush and Adolf Hitler, although Hitler was (debatably) vegetarian. The ancient Greek author, Plutarch, who...
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Anthedonia and Hypereia by the companions of the siblings Anthus and Hypera. Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae 19 referring to Aristotle and Mnasigeiton Plutarch, Moralia...
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Alea iacta est (section Meaning and forms)
of no return. The phrase was a quote from a play by Menander, and according to Plutarch, Caesar originally said the line in Greek rather than Latin. The...
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Iliad, and by many ancient writers and geographers, including Herodotus, Thucydides, Aristotle, Livy, Plutarch, Strabo, Pliny the Elder, Athenaeus and Ptolemaeus...
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Solon (section Early life and ancestry)
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...
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west, while Macedon was located to the south of Paeonia. According to Plutarch, the Maedi rebelled against their Macedonian overlords when King Philip...
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this. The king (basileus) served as the head of state and was assisted by his noble companions and royal pages. Kings served as the chief judges of the...
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Nymph (section Nymphs and fairies)
Pleiades (companions of Artemis). Nymphs featured in classic works of art, literature, and mythology. They are often attendants of goddesses and frequently...
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