In Plutarch's Lives, Translated by Bernadotte Perrin, 11 vols.

During this trip, he further conceived the character of Conan and also wrote the poem " Cimmeria ", much of which echoes specific passages in Plutarch's Lives.

Rousseau had no recollection of learning to read, but he remembered how when he was 5 or 6 his father encouraged his love of reading: Not long afterward, Rousseau abandoned his taste for escapist stories in favor of the antiquity of Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, which he would read to his father while he made watches.

Misogynist is also found in the Greek — misogunēs ()— in Deipnosophistae ( above ) and in Plutarch's Parallel Lives, where it is used as the title of Heracles in the history of Phocion.

** Plutarch's Parallel Lives: " Antony " ~ Internet Classics Archive ( MIT )

** Plutarch's Parallel Lives: " Life of Antony " – Loeb Classical Library edition, 1920

** Plutarch's Parallel Lives: " The Comparison of Demetrius and Antony " ~ Internet Classics Archive ( MIT )

***( From the translation in 4 volumes, available at Project Gutenberg :) Plutarch's Lives, Volume I ( of 4 )

Writing his Lives of Illustrious Men ( Parallel Lives ) in the first century CE, the Middle Platonic philosopher Plutarch's chapter on Romulus gave an account of his mysterious disappearance and subsequent deification, comparing it to traditional Greek beliefs such as the resurrection and physical immortalization of Alcmene and Aristeas the Proconnesian, " for they say Aristeas died in a fuller's work-shop, and his friends coming to look for him, found his body vanished ; and that some presently after, coming from abroad, said they met him traveling towards Croton.

The plot is based on Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Lives and follows the relationship between Cleopatra and Mark Antony from the time of the Parthian War to Cleopatra's suicide during the Final War of the Roman Republic.

The principal source for the story is Plutarch's " Life of Mark Antony " from Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Compared Together, in the translation made by Sir Thomas North in 1579.

One of Shakespeare's most famous speeches, drawn almost verbatim from North's translation of Plutarch's Lives, Enobarbus's description of Cleopatra on her barge, is full of opposites resolved into a single meaning, corresponding with these wider oppositions that characterise the rest of the play:

Some details of Epaminondas's life can be found in Plutarch's " Lives " of Pelopidas and Agesilaus II, who were contemporaries.

Cato the Younger and the many classical examples of self-destruction described in Plutarch's Lives appealed to the imaginations of young Italian patriots as they had done in France to those of the heroes and heroines of the Gironde.

That he studied general history, as we see from the quotations in Plutarch's lives of Lycurgus, Solon, Aristides, Pericles, Nicias, Alcibiades, Lysander, Agesilaus, and Demosthenes, which were probably borrowed from the work on Lives.

* Plutarch's " Life of Marcellus ", The Parallel Lives, 30 Apr.

History's greatest philosophical writings from Plato's Republic to Plutarch's Lives have explored the question " What qualities distinguish an individual as a leader?

* The 20 elephants in the army of Pyrrhus of Epirus, which landed at Tarentum in 280 BC for the first Battle of Heraclea, recorded in Plutarch's Lives, Polybius, Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Livy.

He is the subject of one of Plutarch's Parallel Lives ( Greek: Βίοι Παράλληλοι ).

His only considerable enterprise in prose was a revision of a 17th century translation of Plutarch ( called the " Dryden Translation ," but actually the product of translators other than Dryden ) which occupied him from 1852, and was published as Plutarch's Lives ( 1859 ).

In Plutarch's Parallel Lives Sulla is paired with the Spartan general and strategist Lysander.

Plutarch's Parallel Lives | Lives is the main source for the most substantial surviving account of the Sacred Band.

According to Plutarch's natural order of attribution of the vowels to the planets, alpha was connected with the Moon.

Agesilaus II, or Agesilaos II () ( 444 BC – 360 BC ) was a king of Sparta, of the Eurypontid dynasty, ruling from approximately 400 BC to 360 BC, during most of which time he was, in Plutarch's words, " as good as thought commander and king of all Greece ," and was for the whole of it greatly identified with his country's deeds and fortunes.

Plutarch's evidence for a quorum of 6, 000, on a priori grounds a necessity for ostracism also per the account of Philochorus, accords with the number required for grants of citizenship in the following century and is generally preferred.

In Egyptian accounts, however, the penis of Osiris is found intact, and the only close parallel with this part of Plutarch's story is in " The Tale of Two Brothers ", a folk tale from the New Kingdom with similarities to the Osiris myth.

In Macedon, according to Plutarch's Life of Alexander, they were called Mimallones and Klodones, epithets derived from the feminine art of spinning wool ; nevertheless, these warlike parthenoi (" virgins ") from the hills, associated with a shamanic Dionysios pseudanor, routed an invading enemy.

Eusebius of Caesarea in his Praeparatio Evangelica ( book V ) seems to have been the first Christian apologist to give Plutarch's anecdote, which he identifies as his source, pseudo-historical standing, which Eusebius buttressed with many invented passing details that lent verisimilitude.

According to Plutarch's Life of Pelopidas ( paired with the Life of Marcellus ), he ruined his inherited estate by showing constant care for the deserving poor of Thebes, taking pleasure in simple clothing, a spare diet, and the constant hardships of military life.

The episode is referenced in Plutarch's Life of Theseus, in description of Theseus ' method of slaying his assailants by returning " the same sort of violence that they offered to him ," as Heracles killed Termerus by “ breaking his skull in pieces ( whence, they say, comes the proverb of ' a Termerian mischief '), for it seems Termerus killed passengers that he met by running with his head against them .”

According to Plutarch's Life of Romulus, the keeper of the Temple of Hercules challenged the hero to a game of dice with Hercules to receive a night with a beautiful woman and a fine spread and the god to provide the temple keeper with a valuable gift if the keeper was successful.

Numerous ancient sources, including Plutarch's Life of Alcibiades, preserve stories of Anytus ' tumultuous relationship with the young Alcibiades, also a lover of Socrates.

Due to difficulties in reconciling the description of Plutarch with the earlier accounts, and circumstantial evidence such as the cryptographic weakness of the device, several authors have suggested that the scytale was used for conveying messages in plaintext and that Plutarch's description is mythological.

" It seems likely that in the 500 years between Herodotus's time and Plutarch's, the story of Pheidippides had become muddled with that of the Battle of Marathon ( particularly the story of the Athenian forces making the march from Marathon to Athens in order to intercept the Persian ships headed there ), and some fanciful writer had invented the story of the run from Marathon to Athens.

Other ancient deluge myths have been discovered since then, explaining why the flood story was " stated in scientific methods with surprising frequency among the Greeks ", an example being Plutarch's account of the Ogygian flood.

Plutarch's mention of Hermes Trismegistus dates back to the first century CE, and Tertullian, Iamblichus, and Porphyry are all familiar with Hermetic writings.

He also began a correspondence with David Ruhnken, the veteran scholar of Leiden, requesting fragments of Aeschylus that Ruhnken had come across in his collection of unpublished lexicons and grammarians, and sending him his restoration of a corrupt passage in the Supplices ( 673 – 677 ) by the help of a nearly equally corrupt passage of Plutarch's Eroticus.

As with its apparent cognate, " labyrinth ", the word entered the Greek language as a loanword, so that without Plutarch's specific reference its etymology, and even its original language, would not be positively known.

According to one of Plutarch's characters in the dialogue, the philosopher Cleanthes had held that Aristarchus should be charged with impiety for " moving the hearth of the world ".

Two biographies of Lucullus survive today, Plutarch's Lucullus in the famous series of Parallel Lives, in which Lucullus is paired with the Athenian aristocratic politician and Strategos Cimon, and # 74 in the slender Latin Liber de viris illustribus, of late and unknown authorship, the main sources for which appear to go back to Varro and his most significant successor in the genre, Gaius Julius Hyginus.

He wrote important works on the ancient kingdoms of Asia Minor – Trois royaumes de l ' Asie Mineure, Cappadoce, Bithynie, Pont ( 1888 ), Mithridate Eupator ( 1890 ); also a critical edition and translation with H Weil of Plutarch's Treatise on Music ; and an Histoire des Israélites depuis la ruine de leur indépendance nationale jusqu ' à nos jours ( 2nd ed., 1901 ).