Plutarch (/ˈpluːtɑːrk/; ‹See Tfd›Greek: Πλούταρχος, Ploútarchos; Koinē Greek: [ˈplúːtarkʰos]; c. AD 46 – after AD 119) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher...
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Look up Plutarch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Plutarch of Chaeronea (c. 46–120) was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist...
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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...
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Parallel Lives (redirect from Plutarch's Lives)
historian, and Apollonian priest Plutarch, probably at the beginning of the second century. It is also known as Plutarch's Lives (Πλούταρχου Βίοι, Ploútarchou...
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Pseudo-Plutarch is the conventional name given to the actual, but unknown, authors of a number of pseudepigrapha (falsely attributed works) attributed...
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Romulus and Remus (section Life of Romulus (Plutarch))
Sources often contradict one another. They include the histories of Livy, Plutarch, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and Tacitus as well as the work of Virgil...
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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...
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('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...
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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...
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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...
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Greek σκάφη, meaning "boat"), also known as the boats, is reported by Plutarch in his Life of Artaxerxes as an ancient Persian method of execution. He...
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Third Servile War (section Plutarch's history)
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...
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Ahura Mazda (section Plutarch)
Classical period. Turcan: 232 notes that Plutarch makes of Arimanius "a sort of tenebrous Pluto". Plutarch, however, names the Greek god as Hades, not...
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Moralia (redirect from Table Talk (Plutarch))
10th–13th centuries but traditionally ascribed to the 1st-century scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea. The eclectic collection contains 78 essays and transcribed...
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(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...
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479–323 BC, 33–34 Plutarch, Pericles, XVI Plutarch, Pericles, VII Plutarch, Pericles, IX Aristotle, Constitution of Athens, 27 Plutarch, Cimon, XV L.J....
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be located in Alexandria, Egypt. According to historians Suetonius and Plutarch, the Roman leader Octavian permitted their burial together after he had...
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Coronea (447 BC), Pericles and Ariphron became his guardians. According to Plutarch, Alcibiades had several famous teachers, including Socrates, and was well...
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List of The Hunger Games characters (redirect from Plutarch Heavensbee)
underground rebellion organised by the supposedly destroyed District 13 and Plutarch Heavensbee. In the third installment, she is caught in a love triangle...
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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...
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was already married to him when she eloped with Theseus. According to Plutarch, Paion the Amathusian recounted Theseus accidentally abandoned Ariadne...
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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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Mana Genita (section In Plutarch)
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...
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Plutarch (‹See Tfd›Greek: Πλούταρχος; died 105) served as Bishop of Byzantium for sixteen years (89–105 AD) in succession to Polycarp. When he died, he...
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antiquity, Chronos was occasionally interpreted as Cronus. According to Plutarch, the Greeks believed that Cronus was an allegorical name for Chronos. In...
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in which he was defeated by Pyrrhus of Epirus. In his Life of Pyrrhus, Plutarch wrote that Gaius Fabricius Luscinus said of this battle that it was not...
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Plutarch, Themistocles, 19 Holland, pp. 214–217 Holland, pp. 217–219 Plutarch, Themistocles, 3 Plutarch, Aristides, 2 Holland, pp. 208–211 Plutarch,...
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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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