• Plutarch's Staff is the 23rd adventure in the Blake and Mortimer series. It was written by Yves Sente and drawn by André Juillard and Étienne Schréder...
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  • ISBN 9781849182140 The Septimus Wave (published February 2015) ISBN 9781849182423 Plutarch's Staff (published September 2015) ISBN 9781849182645 Professor Satō's Three...
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    of King Minos. Plutarch's avowed purpose is to construct a life that parallels the Life of Romulus, the founding myth of Rome. Plutarch's sources, not all...
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  • Original publication Language French Translation Publisher Cinebook Ltd Chronology Preceded by The Oath of the Five Lords Followed by Plutarch's Staff...
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  • Original publication Language French Translation Publisher Cinebook Ltd Chronology Preceded by Plutarch's Staff Followed by The Valley of the Immortals...
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    Routledge. ISBN 0415333172. "The nonsense about the snakes" is from Plutarch's Life of Alexander (2.6), according to Robin Lane Fox, Alexander the Great...
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  • classical authors, especially Plutarch. Noted classical historians such as John Kinloch Anderson and George Cawkwell accept Plutarch's Life of Pelopidas, which...
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    1955); (Dalby 1998, p. 13). (Astin 1978, pp. 184–185). Plutarch (1 January 1853). Plutarch's Lives of Illustrious Men. Henry G. Bohn. (Astin 1978, p...
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    Machine (MIT) Plutarch's Parallel Lives: "Pompey" ~ Internet Classics Archive Archived 19 February 2005 at the Wayback Machine (MIT) Plutarch's Parallel Lives:...
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    that the scytale was used for conveying messages in plaintext and that Plutarch's description is mythological. An alternative hypothesis is that the scytale...
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    familiares (Letters to friends) Biographies and descriptions of Cicero's time Plutarch's biography of Cicero contained in the Parallel Lives Life of Cicero by...
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    Archived from the original on 21 June 2023. Retrieved 21 June 2023. Plutarch (1920), Plutarch's Lives, translated by Bernadotte Perrin, Cambridge, Massachusetts:...
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  • Affections. 1800 The Childless Father 1800 "'Up, Timothy, up with your staff and away!" Poems founded on the Affections. 1800 Song for The Wandering...
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    are Pliny the Elder's Natural History, writings by Pomponius Mela, and Plutarch's Life of Alexander. The site of the temple was rediscovered in 1869, after...
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  • Callibius. Xenophon, Symposium, I Comp. Athen. v. p. 187. (cited in Smith) Plutarch's Lives. Lysander  This article incorporates text from a publication now...
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    and taken down by Sulla, over Jugurtha and the Cimbri. According to Plutarch's narrative, the trophies were restored overnight to the applause and tears...
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  • in Plutarch’s Parallel Lives." Greek Roman and Byzantine Studies 52, no. 4 (2012): 603–631. Xenophontos, Sophia. "Peri agathou strategou: Plutarch’s Fabius...
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    Antisthenes ignored him and reportedly "eventually beat him off with his staff". Diogenes responded, "Strike, for you will find no wood hard enough to...
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    the epithet Paean ("the Healer"). The rod of Asclepius, a snake-entwined staff similar to the caduceus, remains a symbol of medicine today. Those physicians...
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    provenance of other descriptions are clear.[citation needed] For instance, Plutarch's description of its dualistic theologies reads thus: "Others call the better...
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    the period supposedly portrayed. Plutarch; Morgan, Matthew (1718). Plutarch's Morals. London: W. Taylor. p. 204. Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata...
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    Discovered in 1818. Philadelphia: George Gebbie & Co., pp. 41, 44. Plutarch (1920). Plutarch's Lives, translated by Bernadotte Perrin, Cambridge, MA: Harvard...
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    Friedrich Nietzsche (category Academic staff of the University of Basel)
    Augustine Cicero Confucius Lactantius Laozi Mencius Mozi Origen Philo Plato Plutarch Polybius Tertullian Thucydides Xunzi Medieval Alpharabius Aquinas Avempace...
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    Charles H. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. Plutarch (1923). Plutarch's Lives. Translated by Perrin, Bernadotte. Cambridge, Massachusetts:...
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    University Press, W. Heinemann – via Perseus Project. Plutarch (1914) [c. 100 AD]. "Camillus". Plutarch's Lives. Loeb Classical Library. Vol. 2. Translated...
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    of fish, and incense. However, his main symbol is the caduceus, a winged staff intertwined with two snakes copulating and carvings of the other gods. In...
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    Powell, Barry B., Classical Myth, 5th edition, 2007. Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis, in Plutarch's morals, Volume V, edited and translated by William Watson...
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    seditious act, the authorities instituted reforms and replaced several staff during Marx's attendance. In October 1835 at the age of 16, Marx travelled...
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    Paterculus, Roman History Book II, 33 Plutarch, Life of Lucullus, p. 37. According to Plutarch's Life of Lucullus. Plutarch goes on to say that Pompey and Cicero...
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    subsequent popular depictions of Aesop. Aesop plays a fairly prominent part in Plutarch's conversation piece "The Banquet of the Seven Sages" in the 1st century...
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