* Plutarch, ( 1936 ) De Iside et Osiride, edited by Frank C. Babbitt

Greek and Roman writings, particularly De Iside et Osiride by Plutarch, provide more information but may not always accurately reflect Egyptian beliefs.

In the early 2nd century AD, Plutarch wrote the most complete ancient account of the myth in De Iside et Osiride, an analysis of Egyptian religious beliefs.

According to the Greek historian Plutarch ( in De defectu oraculorum, " The Obsolescence of Oracles "), Pan is the only Greek god ( other than Asclepius ) who actually dies.

Plutarch in his work De mulierum virtutibus (" On the Virtues of Women ") describes how the tyrant of Cyrene, Nicocrates, was deposed by his wife Aretaphila of Cyrene around the year 50 BC

Levai notes that while Plutarch ’ s De Iside et Osiride mentions the deity's marriage, there is very little specifically linking Nephthys and Set in the original early Egyptian sources.

Plutarch wrote in De Superstitiones 171:

About this time two requests were made to him for an edition of the Moralia of Plutarch, for which a recension of the tract De sera numinis vindicta had marked him out in the eyes of scholars.

In addition to several school editions of portions of Cicero, Thucydides, Xenophon and Plutarch, he published an expurgated text of Aristophanes with a useful onomasticon ( re-issued separately, 1902 ) and larger editions of Cicero's De officiis ( revised ed., 1898 ) and of the Octavius of Minucius Felix ( 1853 ).

Demosthenes, De Corona and De Falsa Legatione ; Aeschines, De Falsa Legations and In Ctesiphentem ; Lives by Plutarch, Philostratus and Libanius ; the Exegesis of Apollonius.

The term is taken up by Aristotle ( De caelo 308a. 20 ), Strabo, Plutarch and Diogenes Laertius, and was adopted into Latin as antipodes.

** Plutarch, De Virtut.

* Cicero, De seneclute, vii. 22 ; Plutarch, Moralia, 785 B ;

Rivalries between neighbouring cities are reported: according to Plutarch ( De Iside, 72 ) when an inhabitant of Cynopolis ate an Oxyrhynchos fish the people of Oxyrhynchos started attacking dogs in revenge which resulted in a little civil war.

Plutarch stated ( De Musica ) that, during the early Greek age, musical harmonies that were recognized as perfect were legally binding at public performances.

Plutarch is our main source for these inventions, and Quintus Terentius Scaurus confirms the former in De Orthographia.

Having been convicted of extortion, he committed suicide ( Cicero, De Legibus, i. 2, Brutus, 67 ; Plutarch, Cicero, 9 ).

The architects Mnesikles and Callicrates are said to have called the building Hekatompedos (" the hundred footer ") in their lost treatise on Athenian architecture, and, in the 4th century and later, the building was referred to as the Hekatompedos or the Hekatompedon as well as the Parthenon ; the 1st-century AD writer Plutarch referred to the building as the Hekatompedon Parthenon.

Plutarch says that Romulus was 53 (" in the fifty-fourth year of his age ") at his death ( Plutarch says that he vanished ) in 717 BC.

A tomb was made for the sramana, still visible in the time of Plutarch, which bore the following inscription, " ΖΑΡΜΑΝΟΧΗΓΑΣ ΙΝΔΟΣ ΑΠΟ ΒΑΡΓΟΣΗΣ " (" The sramana master from Barygaza in India ").

Plutarch describes the institution as consisting of companies (" syssitia ," or " eating-together " groups ) of about fifteen men, each bound to bring in and contribute each month a bushel of meal, 8 gallons of wine, 5 pounds of cheese, 2 and a half pounds of figs, and a small amount of money to buy meat or fish with.

The precise level of her relationship to Numa has been described diversely sometimes as Amica, but ordinarily has been qualified with the more respectful coniuncta (" consort "); Plutarch is very evasive as of the actual mode, and hints that Numa himself entertained a level of ambiguïty.

It was a decisive point in Caesar's military career-his five-day campaign against Pharnaces was evidently so swift and complete that, according to Plutarch ( writing about 150 years after the battle ) he commemorated it with the now famous Latin words reportedly written to Amantius in Rome Veni, vidi, vici (" I came, I saw, I conquered ").

Plutarch structured his Lives by alternating lives of famous Greeks (" Grecians ") with those of famous Romans.

A tomb was made to the sramana, still visible in the time of Plutarch, which bore the mention " ΖΑΡΜΑΝΟΧΗΓΑΣ ΙΝΔΟΣ ΑΠΟ ΒΑΡΓΟΣΗΣ " (" The sramana master from Barygaza in India "):

Plutarch criticised Herodotus in his essay " On The Malignity of Herodotus ", describing Herodotus as " Philobarbaros " ( barbarian-lover ), for not being pro-Greek enough, which suggests that Herodotus might actually have done a reasonable job of being even-handed.

* Plutarch Parallel Lives ( Aristides, Themistocles, Theseus ), On the Malice of Herodotus

Some " calumnious fictions " were written about Herodotus in a work titled On the Malice of Herodotus, by Plutarch, a Theban by birth, ( or it might have been a Pseudo-Plutarch, in this case " a great collector of slanders "), including the allegation that the historian was prejudiced against Thebes because the authorities there had denied him permission to set up a school.

The rejection of the heliocentric view was apparently quite strong, as the following passage from Plutarch suggests ( On the Apparent Face in the Orb of the Moon ):

A nearly identical story is told by Plutarch, in his On Isis and Osiris, of the goddess Isis burning away the mortality of Prince Maneros of Byblos, son of Queen Astarte, and being likewise interrupted before completing the process.

On these two sources depend other ancient authorities, such as Ovid, Servius, Aulus Gellius, Macrobius, patristic texts, Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Plutarch.

Plutarch criticised Herodotus in his essay " On The Malignity of Herodotus ", describing Herodotus as " Philobarbaros " ( barbarian-lover ), for not being pro-Greek enough, which suggests that Herodotus might actually have done a reasonable job of being even-handed.

Rejection of the heliocentric view was common, as the following passage from Plutarch suggests ( On the Apparent Face in the Orb of the Moon ):

* On the laws of Solon (), a work mentioned by Plutarch

A lost epic, Titanomachia, attributed to the blind Thracian bard Thamyris, himself a legendary figure, was mentioned in passing in an essay On Music that was once attributed to Plutarch.

A lost epic attributed to Thamyris, Titanomachy, was mentioned in passing in the essay " On Music " that was once believed to be authored by Plutarch.

See also Van den Berg, Proclus ' Commentary, p. 49, with reference to Plutarch, On the E at Delphi .</ ref > Neoplatonists sometimes interpreted the Eleusinian Mysteries as a fabula of celestial phenomena:

The artistic unity of his work suffered severely from the frequent and lengthy digressions, of which the most important was On the Athenian Demagogues in the 10th book of the Philippica, containing a bitter attack on many of the chief Athenian statesmen, and generally recognized as having been freely used by Plutarch in several of the Lives.

* The Greek historian / biographer Plutarch of Chaeronea wrote the On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander the Great and " Life of Alexander " in his " Parallel Lives " series, paired with " Life of Julius Caesar "

The first known written account of a run from Marathon to Athens occurs in the works of the Greek writer Plutarch ( 46 – 120 ), in his essay On the Glory of Athens.

Plutarch tells of a similar story, reporting that it comes from a work entitled On Good Birth, but he expresses doubt as to whether it was written by Aristotle.

Lucian, writing in his book On Slips of the Tongue describes an occasion when Hephaestion's conversation one morning implied that he had been in Alexander's tent all night, and Plutarch describes the intimacy between them when he tells how Hephaestion was in the habit of reading Alexander's letters with him, and of a time when he showed that the contents of a letter were to be kept secret by touching his ring to Hephaestion's lips.

Plutarch criticised Herodotus in his essay " On The Malignity of Herodotus ", describing Herodotus as " Philobarbaros " ( barbarian-lover ), for not being pro-Greek enough, which suggests that Herodotus might actually have done a reasonable job of being even-handed.

On the way, the rope ( again, according to Plutarch ) broke of its own accord.

Plutarch criticised Herodotus in his essay " On The Malignity of Herodotus ", describing Herodotus as " Philobarbaros " ( barbarian-lover ) and for not being pro-Greek enough, which suggests that Herodotus might actually have done a reasonable job of being even-handed.

On hearing of his death in Utica, Plutarch wrote that Caesar commented: " Cato, I grudge you your death, as you would have grudged me the preservation of your life.

Plutarch criticised Herodotus in his essay " On The Malignity of Herodotus ", describing Herodotus as " Philobarbaros " ( barbarian-lover ) for not being pro-Greek enough, which suggests that Herodotus might actually have done a reasonable job of being even-handed.