His earliest work was a biography of the Greek statesman Philopoemen ; this work was later used as a source by Plutarch when composing his Parallel Lives, however the original Polybian text is lost.

Among his last words were, according to Plutarch, " By all means must we fly ; not with our feet, however, but with our hands.

According to Plutarch however, Solon originally wrote poetry for amusement, discussing pleasure in a popular rather than philosophical way.

According to Herodotus and Plutarch, he met with Croesus and gave the Lydian king advice, which however Croesus failed to appreciate until it was too late.

" Later in the work, however, Plutarch indicates that " her beauty, as we are told, was in itself neither altogether incomparable, nor such as to strike those who saw her.

The exaggerated age, however, is inconsistent with a statement recorded by Plutarch on the asserted authority of Cato himself.

Plutarch, however claims that the children were already dead at the time, having been killed by their parents, whose consent — as well as that of the children — was required ; Tertullian explains the acquiescence of the children as a product of their youthful trustfulness.

Epaminondas was one of approximately 50 ancient figures given an extensive biography by Plutarch in his Parallel Lives, in which he is paired with the Roman statesman Scipio Africanus ; however, both these " Lives " are now lost.

According to Plutarch, however, the Megarians claimed that Sciron was not a robber, but identified him with the Megarian warlord named Sciron.

Plutarch may not however be correct, as some Egyptologists allege that the Sinope in the tale is really the hill of Sinopeion, a name given to the site of the already existing Serapeum at Memphis.

The form of the Saturnalia is copied from Plato's Symposium and Gellius's Noctes atticae ; the chief authorities ( whose names, however, are not quoted ) are Gellius, Seneca the philosopher, Plutarch ( Quaestiones conviviales ), Athenaeus and the commentaries of Servius and others on Virgil.

The works of the latter two, however, survived long enough for later authors like Plutarch, Diodorus, and Polyaenus to base their works on.

Plutarch also discusses the identification of the Jewish god with the " Egyptian " ( actually archaic Greek ) Typhon, an identification which he later rejects, however ( though the identification of Typhon-Seth and YHWH is not really controversial, as it is well attested to in Hebrew practice from the 4th century BC through the 1st century AD ).

Lucullus is reported by Plutarch to have lost his mind at the end and went intermittently mad as he aged ; Plutarch, however seems to be somewhat ambivalent as to whether the factor behind the apparent madness was what he seems to most lean towards which was the administration of some sort of love potion or if it was at least in part feigned as a political protection against changes in the Roman state, such as the rise of the popular party.

Thucydides did not mention it, however Herodotus does, as does Plutarch, who thought it had either been signed after the Battle of the Eurymedon in 466 BC, or that it had never been signed at all.

This point is unsolved however, since Greek sources ( Plutarch ( Praec.

Diodorus however does not have anything to say about the sexual orientation of Epaminondas or the Sacred Band, nor does he say anything about the following account, again from Plutarch ( Amatorius 17 ).

Plutarch, however, explains it as the symbolic departure of the priest with the title rex sacrorum.

Plutarch wrote: " The senate, much commending their public spirit, caused the temple to be built and a statue set up in it at the public charge ; they, however, made up a sum among themselves, for a second image of Fortune, which the Romans say uttered, as it was putting up, words to this effect, “ Blessed of the gods, O women, is your gift .”"

All of these symptoms match the experience of the Pythia in action, as related by Plutarch, who witnessed many prophecies.

Plutarch mentions it as reported of Aesopus, that, while representing Atreus deliberating how he should revenge himself on Thyestes, the actor forgot himself so far in the heat of action that with his truncheon he struck and killed one of the servants crossing the stage.

When the Persian fleet finally arrived at Artemisium after a significant delay, Eurybiades, who both Herodotus and Plutarch suggest was not the most inspiring commander, wished to sail away without fighting.

Whatever conflicts existed between the two men, Antony remained faithful to Caesar but it is worth mentioning that according to Plutarch ( paragraph 13 ) Trebonius, one of the conspirators, had ' sounded him unobtrusively and cautiously ... Antony had understood his drift ... but had given him no encouragement: at the same time he had not reported the conversation to Caesar '.

According to Plutarch, Antony threw her out of his house in Rome, because she slept with his friend, the tribune Publius Cornelius Dolabella.

According to Plutarch, Cleopatra took flight with her ships at the height of the battle and Antony followed her.

Plutarch, writing about 130 years after the event, reports that Octavian succeeded in capturing Cleopatra in her mausoleum after the death of Antony.

Plutarch tells us of the death of Antony.

In his Life of Antony, Plutarch remarks that " judging by the proofs which she had had before this of the effect of her beauty upon Caius Caesar and Gnaeus the son of Pompey, she had hopes that she would more easily bring Antony to her feet.

Historical facts are also sometimes changed: in Plutarch Antony's final defeat was many weeks after the battle of Actium, and Octavia lived with Antony for several years and bore him two children: Antonia Major, paternal grandmother of the Emperor Nero and maternal grandmother of the Empress Valeria Messalina, and Antonia Minor, the sister-in-law of the Emperor Tiberius, mother of the Emperor Claudius, and paternal grandmother of the Emperor Caligula and Empress Agrippina the Younger.

Many scholars suggest that Shakespeare possessed an extensive knowledge of the story of Antony and Cleopatra through the historian Plutarch, and used Plutarch ’ s account as a blueprint for his own play.

A closer look at this intertextual link reveals that Shakespeare used, for instance, Plutarch ’ s assertion that Antony claimed a genealogy that led back to Hercules, and constructed a parallel to Cleopatra by often associating her with Dionysus in his play.

Plutarch reports that Antony covered Brutus's body with a purple garment as a sign of respect ; they had been friends.

Plutarch, Cassius Dio and Suetonius state that Octavian killed Antony ’ s son Marcus Antonius Antyllus and Cleopatra's son with Julius Caesar, Caesarion.

Plutarch states that the only child that Octavian killed out of Antony ’ s children was Marcus Antonius Antyllus.

Appian, Dio Cassius, and Plutarch each report that city was once again destroyed in the Roman Civil Wars, circa 42 BC, by Brutus, but Appian notes that it was rebuilt under Mark Antony.

* Plutarch Antony 3. 2-3. 6

Plutarch believed that Fulvia heavily influenced Antony, and that former Clodian policies were continued through him.

Their last appearance is at Actium, where Mark Antony is said by Plutarch to have had many " eights ".

* Plutarch, Life of Antony, Chapter 54

Plutarch describes the process in his life of Antony.

According to Plutarch and Suetonius, Antyllus was the only child of Mark Antony to be executed by Octavian.

* Plutarch, The Makers of Rome, Antony.

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