Themistocles can still reasonably be thought of as " the man most instrumental in achieving the salvation of Greece " from the Persian threat, as Plutarch describes him.

Plutarch describes the events of one session in which the omens were ill-favored, but the Oracle was consulted nonetheless.

In his book The Comparison of Romulus with Theseus Plutarch describes how the Athenians uncovered the body of Theseus, which was of more than ordinary size.

Alcibiades was not one of the Generals involved in the capture of Melos in 416 – 415 BC, but Plutarch describes him as a supporter of the decree by which the grown men of Melos were killed and the women and children enslaved.

The Greek historian Plutarch describes him as ' one of the most gifted rulers of his time '.

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

Plutarch describes him as slender and weak ; and Plato also alludes to his weakness, and a degree of effeminacy which thus resulted.

Around the same time that he became an aedile, Marcellus was also awarded the position of augur, which Plutarch describes as being an interpreter of omens.

Curtius states that Hephaestion was the sharer of all his secrets, and Plutarch describes an occasion when Alexander had a controversial change to impose, and implies that Hephaestion was the one with whom Alexander had discussed it, and who arranged for the change to be implemented.

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.

Among these were men whom Plutarch describes as " cowards " which included some high-ranking spartiates who managed to avoid joining Cleombrotus ' expedition previously.

Plutarch describes her as a beautiful woman of good character, well read and a skilled player of the lyre.

Plutarch describes her as being prime of youth and beauty.

Plutarch describes what followed:

Most authorities are agreed as to his avarice and incompetence, but the biographer Plutarch describes him as friendly, honest and generous man.

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.

Plutarch describes the process in his life of Antony.

Plutarch describes this formation as used by Mark Antony during his invasion of Parthia in 36 BC:

The phrase may describe Greek efforts to explain others ' beliefs and myths, as when Herodotus describes Egyptian religion in terms of perceived Greek analogues, or when Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Plutarch document Roman cults, temples, and practices under the names of equivalent Greek deities.

The ancient historian and biographer Plutarch describes Spartacus as " a Thracian of nomadic stock ", referring to the Maedi.

Plutarch, who discusses him in his lives of Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla, describes Gnaeus Octavius ' character as " reputable ".

Aeschines described Eurydice I as the loyal defender of her sons, whereas a Plutarch ’ s passage describes Eurydice as a good model in the education of children.

In his Life of Cato the Elder, Plutarch describes how he would use the process to make money, but calls it " the most disreputable form of money-lending.

Plutarch states it to have been fear of her husband, together with hatred of his cruel and brutal character, and ascribes these feelings principally to the representations of Pelopidas, when she visited him in his prison.

According to a version of the Ariadne legend noted by Plutarch, Theseus abandoned Ariadne at Amathousa, where she died giving birth to her child and was buried in a sacred tomb.

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

Plutarch identifies her with spring and Cicero calls her the seed of the fruits of the fields.

His wife Porcia was reported to have committed suicide upon hearing of her husband's death, although, according to Plutarch ( Brutus 53 para 2 ), there is some dispute as to whether this is the case: Plutarch states that there is a letter in existence that was allegedly written by Brutus mourning the manner of her death.

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.

However, most commonly, these refer to an observation made by Plutarch, who presided as high priest at Delphi for several years, who stated that her oracular powers appeared to be associated with vapors from the Kerna spring waters that flowed under the temple.

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 states that she was found dead, her handmaiden Iras dying at her feet, and another handmaiden, Charmion, adjusting her crown before she herself fell.

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.

" 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.

According to Plutarch, Hipparete loved her husband, but she attempted to divorce him because he consorted with courtesans.

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.

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 isn't sure exactly how Fabius came up with this number, although he believes it was to honor of the perfection of the number three, as it is the first of the odd numbers, and one of the first of the prime numbers.

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 claimed that the army had fought against three million men during the Gallic Wars, of whom one million died, and another million were enslaved.

An inscription identifies Callicrates as one of the architects of the Classical circuit wall of the Acropolis ( IG I < sup > 3 </ sup > 45 ), and Plutarch further states ( loc cit ) that he contracted to build the Middle of three amazing walls linking Athens and Piraeus.

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 '.

Plutarch recounts one version of the myth in which Set ( Osiris ' brother ), along with the Queen of Ethiopia, conspired with 72 accomplices to plot the assassination of Osiris.

Plutarch wrote that, according to Volumnius, Brutus repeated two verses, but Volumnius was only able to recall the one quoted.

* Arsinoe, one of the Minyades, according to Plutarch

Plutarch says: " And yet when he was further on in years, he was accused of criminal intimacy with Licinia, one of the vestal virgins and Licinia was formally prosecuted by a certain Plotius.

Plutarch then goes on to repeat the usual ancient account with its brutal landlords on one side and wretched tenants on the other.

Ancient pictures of the Roman twins usually follow certain symbolic traditions, depending on the legend they follow: they either show a shepherd, the she-wolf, the twins under a fig tree, and one or two birds ( Livy, Plutarch ); or they depict two shepherds, the she-wolf, the twins in a cave, seldom a fig tree, and never any birds ( Dionysius of Halicarnassus ).

Plutarch affirms that, after his Consulship, Cato accompanied Tiberius Sempronius Longus as legatus to Thrace, but here there seems to be a mistake, for though Scipio Africanus was of opinion that one of the Consuls should have Macedonia, we soon find Sempronius in Cisalpine Gaul, and in 193 BC, we find Cato at Rome dedicating to Victoria Virgo a small temple which he had vowed two years before.

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 relates several opinions on the end of C. Marius: one, from Posidonius, holds that Marius contracted pleurisy ; Gaius Piso has it that Marius walked with his friends and discussed all of his accomplishments with them, adding that no intelligent man ought leave himself to Fortune.

Plutarch, in his vita of Theseus, which treats him as a historical individual, reports that in the Naxos of his day, an earthly Ariadne was separate from a celestial one:

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.

" Athena Hygieia " was one of the cult titles given to Athena, as Plutarch recounts of the building of the Parthenon ( 447-432 BC ):

Yet elsewhere Plutarch states that Sciron was the son of Canethus and Henioche, a daughter of Pittheus, which made him a cousin of Theseus, and that, in one version, Theseus instituted the Isthmian Games so as to honor him.

Plutarch reports an angry letter from Alexander to Darius, naming Bagoas as one of the persons that organized the murder of his father, Philip II.

An Agatharchides, of Samos, is mentioned by Plutarch, as the author of a work on Persia, and one περὶ λίθων.

Plutarch ’ s collection, titled " Life of Marcellus ," focuses on Marcellus ’ military campaigns and political life, rather than being a full-life biography, as one might surmise from the title.

The confrontation, as told by Plutarch, is so heavy in detail that one might question the veracity of his narration.