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.

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 most extensive account of the Isis-Osiris story known today is Plutarch's Greek description written in the 1st century CE, usually known under its Latin title De Iside et Osiride.

For his second triumph, his donatives were said to break all records, though the amounts in Plutarch's account are implausibly high: Pompey ’ s lowest ranking soldiers each received 6000 sesterces ( about six times their annual pay ) and his officers around 5 million sesterces each.

" There are problems in Plutarch's account, however, and it is probable that Demosthenes actually suffered rhotacism, mispronouncing ρ ( r ) as λ ( l ).

The account given in Plutarch's biography of Crassus also mentions that, during the feasting and revelry in the wedding ceremony of Artavazd's sister to the Parthian king Orodes II's son and heir Pacorus in Artashat, Crassus ' head was brought to Orodes II.

The account of the run near Marathon to Athens first appears in Plutarch's On the Glory of Athens in the 1st century AD, which quotes from Heraclides Ponticus ' lost work, giving the runner's name as either Thersipus of Erchius or Eucles.

A final difference in Plutarch's account is Horus ' birth.

In Plutarch's account, Solon accused Athenians of stupidity and cowardice for allowing this to happen.

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.

He believes Plutarch's account ultimately derives from Plato's works, and not from local Boeotian historians.

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

" Noted classical historians like John Kinloch Anderson and George Cawkwell also accept Plutarch's Life of Pelopidas, which contains the most detailed account of the Sacred Band, as a highly reliable account of the events, in contrast to Xenophon's patchy treatment of Theban history.

There is nothing implausible or unusual in Plutarch's account, and every reason to consider it one of the best of his battle pieces.

The grave was excavated in 1890, confirming Plutarch's account, though only 254 skeletons were unearthed.

Plutarch's Life of Demetrius is our longest and most detailed surviving account of Demetrius I Poliorcetes.

W. Hamilton indicated the similarities of Plutarch's account on " the great continent " and Plato's location of Atlantis in Timaeus 24E – 25A.

The following account is taken almost solely from Plutarch's " Life of Lycurgus ," which is more of an anecdotal collection than a real biography.

The actual person Lycurgus may or may not have existed, but as a symbolic founder of the Spartan state he was looked to as the initiator of many of its social and political institutions ; much, therefore, of Plutarch's account is concerned to find the " origin " of contemporary Spartan practices.

From Plutarch's account of Antony, clause 28, the historian gives a story of the character of Antyllus:

* Plutarch's account of the ousting of Antipater II

Historians Polybius and Sir William Smith claim that Cleomenes seized the cities by treachery ; however, Richard Talbert, who translated Plutarch's account of Sparta, and historian Nicholas G. L. Hammond say Cleomenes took them at their own request.

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.

Here, two of the separate forms of Horus that exist in Egyptian tradition have been given distinct positions within Plutarch's version of the myth.

In Plutarch's version of the myth, the mortal Fauna secretly gets drunk on wine, which is forbidden her.

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.

This episode, which is not known from Egyptian sources, gives an etiological explanation for a cult of Isis and Osiris that existed in Byblos in Plutarch's time and possibly as early as the New Kingdom.

In the Greek historian Plutarch's, Life of Sertorius, Elysium is described as:

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:

" His rationalist view of the cosmos is evinced also in Plutarch's letter of consolation to Apollonius :" according to Simonides a thousand or ten thousand years are an undeterminable point, or rather the tiniest part of a point.

Although Christian use of Plutarch's story is of long standing, Ronald Hutton has argued that this specific association is modern and derives from Pan's popularity in Victorian and Edwardian neopaganism.

One principal reason for this is the loss of Plutarch's biography of him.

There is also a surviving ( and possibly abridged ) biography of Epaminondas by the Roman author Cornelius Nepos from the first century BC, in the absence of Plutarch's, this becomes a major source for Epaminondas's 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 .”

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.

The refined detail of Polykleitos ' models for casting executed in clay is revealed in a famous remark repeated in Plutarch's Moralia, that " the work is hardest when the clay is under the fingernail ".

Numa also established the office and duties of Pontifex Maximus and instituted ( Plutarch's version ) the flamen of Quirinus, in honour of Romulus, in addition to those of Jupiter and Mars that already existed.

In Plutarch's version of the story, Socrates, who was already married, attended to Myrto's financial concerns when she became a widow ; this does not entail marriage.

Shakespeare adopted Plutarch's version of Cinna's death in his Julius Caesar, adding the black humor in which he often expressed his distrust of the crowd:

He revised an English version by several writers of Plutarch's Morals ( 5 vols, 1871 ; 6th ed., 1889 ), and published the Greek text with literal English version of Aeschylus ' Agamemnon ( 1906 ) for the Harvard production of that play in June 1906.