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Plutarch writes that many Romans found the triumph held following Caesar's victory to be in poor taste, as those defeated in the civil war had not been foreigners, but instead fellow Romans.
In it he writes of Isis, describing her as: " a goddess exceptionally wise and a lover of wisdom, to whom, as her name at least seems to indicate, knowledge and understanding are in the highest degree appropriate ..." and that the statue of Athena ( Plutarch says " whom they believe to be Isis ") in Sais carried the inscription " I am all that has been, and is, and shall be, and my robe no mortal has yet uncovered.
Additionally, painters, artists and historians of the 19th century portrayed Cleopatra as applying the asp to her breast even though the most reliable source, Plutarch, writes that she was bitten on the arm.
Plutarch writes that Epimenides purified Athens after the pollution brought by the Alcmeonidae, and that the seer's expertise in sacrifices and reform of funeral practices were of great help to Solon in his reform of the Athenian state.
In his Life of Marius, Plutarch writes that Marius's return to power was a particularly brutal and bloody one, saying that the consul's " anger increased day by day and thirsted for blood, kept on killing all whom he held in any suspicion whatsoever.
Plutarch writes that " whenever anybody else greeted Marius and got no salutation or greeting in return, this of itself was a signal for the man's slaughter in the very street, so that even the friends of Marius, to a man, were full of anguish and horror whenever they drew near to greet him.
Information regarding the life of Demetrius are drawn mainly from inscription as only Plutarch writes of him, in Life of Aratus, and Polybius makes scarce mentions of him.
Plutarch writes that the Romans rampaged through the city, taking much of the plunder and artwork they could find.
Plutarch writes that according to some Janus was a Greek from Perrhebia.
Plutarch writes that Xenocrates once attempted to find the total number of syllables that could be made from the letters of the alphabet.
Plutarch writes of how Gaius removed a law that disgraced Marcus Octavius, the tribune whom Tiberius had deposed, because Cornelia asked him to remove it.
Plutarch also writes that Cornelia may have helped Gaius undermine the power of the consul Opimius by hiring foreign harvesters to help provide resistance.
Plutarch writes that Gaius stated:
Plutarch writes:
Plutarch writes in his biography of Artaxerxes II that Mithridates, sentenced to die in this manner in 401 BC for boasting about killing Cyrus the Younger, survived 17 days before dying.
Plutarch writes Roman Questions as a series of questions and answers.
First, individual freedom was restricted, since as Plutarch writes " no man was allowed to live as he wished ", but as in a " military camp " all were engaged in the public service of their polis.
By the time Plutarch writes about Egypt, even Lycurgus has visited the place.
However, this point is controversial since Plutarch writes that eight generations of kings of Pontus stemmed from him before Roman subjection.

Plutarch and Parallel
* Agis IV ( 265 BC – 241 BC ), a Spartan king ; Plutarch included a chapter on him in his Parallel Lives
* Plutarch Parallel Lives ( Aristides, Themistocles, Theseus ), On the Malice of Herodotus
Other noteworthy and famous Greek historians include Plutarch ( 2nd century AD ), who wrote several biographies, the Parallel Lives, in which he wanted to assess the morality of its characters by comparing them in pairs, and Polybius ( 3nd century BC ), who developed Thucydides's method further, becoming one of the most objective historians of classical antiquity.
* Plutarch, Parallel Lives ( Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans )
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.
** Parallel Lives by Plutarch, particularly:
In his chapter on Romulus from Parallel Lives, Plutarch criticises the continuous belief in such disappearances, referring to the allegedly miraculous disappearance of the historical figures Romulus, Cleomedes of Astypalaea, and Croesus.
* Plutarch, The Parallel Lives, The Life of Julius Caesar
* Plutarch, Parallel Lives, Solon
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.
* Plutarch, Parallel Lives
* Plutarch, Parallel Lives ( Numa Pompilius ), v. 8. 6
* Plutarch, Parallel Lives, Life of Numa Pompilius.
* Plutarch, Parallel Lives ( Romulus, 14 – 20 )
* 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 "
* Plutarch, The Parallel Lives-The Life of Camillus:
Noteworthy in the Roman period were Strabo, a writer on geography ; Plutarch, the father of biography, whose Parallel Lives of famous Greeks and Romans is a chief source of information about great figures of antiquity ; Pausanias, a travel writer ; and Lucian, a satirist.
# PlutarchParallel Lives ; Moralia
However, Plutarch, who wrote about Eumenes in his series of Parallel Lives, mentions that it was about lodgings, and a flute-player, so perhaps this was an instance of some deeper antagonism breaking out into a quarrel over a triviality.
* Plutarch, Parallel Lives, Alexander, Eumenes
* Plutarch, Parallel Lives, " Demetrius ", " Pyrrhus ", " Aratus "
* Plutarch, Parallel Lives ; Themistocles, Aristides, Pericles, Cimon
* Plutarch, Parallel Lives
A third edition of his Plutarch was published, in 1603, with more translated Parallel Lives, and a supplement of other translated biographies.

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