Ammonius asks Plutarch what he, being a Boeotian, has to say for Cadmus, the Phoenician who reputedly settled in Thebes and introduced the alphabet to Greece, placing alpha first because it is the Phoenician name for ox — which, unlike Hesiod, the Phoenicians considered not the second or third, but the first of all necessities.

The traditional account of Roman history, which has come down to us through Livy, Plutarch, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and others, is that in Rome's first centuries it was ruled by a succession of seven kings.

Plutarch has the ship docking at Cyme in Aeolia, and Diodorus has Themistocles making his way to Asia in an undefined manner.

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.

Plutarch also states that Set steals and dismembers the corpse only after Isis has retrieved it.

Surely much intervening literature regarding Cydippe the priestess of Hera has been lost, since Plutarch was writing about 300 years after Herodotus first told the story.

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.

By contrast, gynæcocracy, meaning ' rule of women ', has been in use since the 17th century, building on the Greek word found in Aristotle and Plutarch.

This has been disputed by Head because Plutarch states they carried spears shorter than the Roman Triarii and by Dally because they could not have carried an unwieldy pike at the same time as a heavy Roman style shield.

Plutarch has Timaia, the wife of King Agis II, " being herself forward enough to whisper among her helot maid-servants " that the child she was expecting had been fathered by Alcibiades, and not her husband, indicating a certain level of trust.

Alexander appears to have been quite jealous of Antipater's victory ; according to Plutarch, the king wrote in a letter to his viceroy: " It seems, my friends that while we have been conquering Darius here, there has been a battle of mice in Arcadia ".

Through texts of Publius Ovidius Naso and Plutarch, the myth about the origin of the Rhodope mountains and the Balkan mountain range has reached us: " Rhodopa and Hemus were brother and sister.

According to the political journalist and classicist Garry Wills, although Shakespeare has Porcia die by the method Plutarch repeats, but rejects, " the historical Porcia died of illness ( possibly of plague ) a year before the battle of Philippi "...“ but Valerius Maximus wrote that she killed herself at news of Brutus ’ s death in that battle.

The passage of Plutarch has created much controversy.

It is towards these daemones that we direct purifications and apotropaic rites, all kinds of divination, the art of reading chance utterances, and so on ’… This account differs from that of the early Academy in reaching back to the other, Archaic, view of daemones as souls, and thus anticipates the views of Plutarch and Apuleius in the Principate … It clearly implies that daemones can cause illness to livestock: this traditional dominated view has now reached the intellectuals ”.

It is not explicitly stated by Plutarch, but it has been assumed that the two phalanxes engaged each other during the battle.

The ancient Greek historians Ctesias and Plutarch noted that Cyrus was named from Kuros, the Sun, a concept which has been interpreted as meaning " like the Sun " by noting its relation to the Persian noun for sun, khor, while using-vash as a suffix of likeness.

Plutarch said that the shrine of Athena, which he identifies with Isis, in Sais carried the inscription " I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be ; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.

In this myth she is shown as counselor and guide to King Numa in the establishment of the original framework of laws and rituals of Rome, and in this role she is somehow uniquely in Roman mythology associated with " sacred books "; Numa ( Latin " numen " designates " the expressed will of a deity ") is reputed to have written down the teachings of Egeria in " sacred books " that he made bury with him ; when some chance accident brought them back to light some 400 years later, they were deemed by the Senate inappropriate for disclosure to the people and destroyed by their order ; what made them inappropriate was certainly of " political " nature but apparently has not been handed down by Valerius Antias, the source that Plutarch was using. Dionysius of Halicarnassus hints that they were actually kept as a very close secret by the Pontifices.

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.

Gaius Stern has identified a relevant, little known passage, Plutarch Moralia 505C, which adds a story not told in Tacitus.

Most of these data have been recorded by Plutarch, Florus, Cicero, Dio ( Dion ) Cassius and Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( L. 2 ).

Most of these have been recorded by Plutarch ( Lives of Romulus, Numa Pompilius and Camillus ), Florus ( Book I, I ), Cicero ( The Republic VI, 22: Scipio's Dream ), Dio ( Dion ) Cassius and Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( L. 2 ).

He was called Menelaus of Alexandria by both Pappus of Alexandria and Proclus, and a conversation of his with Lucius, held in Rome, is recorded by Plutarch.

Four centuries later Plutarch ignored Aristotle's skepticism and recorded the following anecdote, supplemented with his own conjectures:

The exaggerated age, however, is inconsistent with a statement recorded by Plutarch on the asserted authority of Cato himself.

" In a quote recorded by Plutarch, he once complained that old age had robbed him of every pleasure but making money.

She is described as such in both Livy and Plutarch ; but in Dionysius, Macrobius, and another tradition recorded by Plutarch, she was instead the wife of Hostus Hostilius, a Roman champion at the time of Romulus.

Some philosophers believed the Universe was eternal, and actually had no date of creation, while Plutarch recorded a tradition among the Roman sages in Tuscany that the world was re-created every 25, 868 years.

The paradox is most notably recorded by Plutarch in Life of Theseus from the late 1st century.

The presence of " nines " in Antony's fleet at Actium is recorded by Florus and Cassius Dio, although Plutarch makes explicit mention only of " eights " and " tens ".

The earliest written mention of fouling was by Plutarch who recorded this explanation of its impact on ship speed: " when weeds, ooze, and filth stick upon its sides, the stroke of the ship is more obtuse and weak ; and the water, coming upon this clammy matter, doth not so easily part from it ; and this is the reason why they usually calk their ships.

Such relationships were documented by many Greek historians and in philosophical discourses, as well as in offhand remarks such as Philip II of Macedon's recorded by Plutarch demonstrates:

There is the journey of Tiberius mentioned by Valerius Maximus, the news of the mutiny of Galba as recorded by Tacitus, and the news of the death of Nero as described by Plutarch.

From an anecdote recorded by Plutarch, it is clear that Lagus was a man of obscure birth ; hence, when Theocritus calls Ptolemy a descendant of Heracles, he probably means to represent him as the son of Philip.

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 Plutarch, following as he does the anti-democratic line common in elite sources, the fact that people might be recalled early appears to be another example of the inconsistency of majoritarianism that was characteristic of Athenian democracy.

However, following Iamblichus, Plutarch of Athens, and his master Syrianus, Proclus presents a much more elaborate universe than Plotinus, subdividing the elements of Plotinus ' system into their logically distinct parts, and positing these parts as individual things.

Both Livy ( in Latin, living in Augustus ' time ) and Plutarch ( in Greek, a century later ), described how Rome had developed its legislation, notably the transition from a kingdom to a republic, by following the example of the Greeks.

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 ):

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

Vote cast against Themistocles ; a quorum of 6, 000 was required for ostracism under the Athenian democracy, according to Plutarch ; a similar quorum was necessary in the following century for grants of Athenian citizenship # Athenian_citizenship | citizenship

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 ").

Diodorus, probably following Timaeus, represents him as inducing the Syracusans to pass sentence of death on the captive Athenian generals, but there is also the statement of Philistus ( Plutarch, Nicias, 28 ), a Syracusan who himself took part in the defence, and Thucydides ( vii.

In 50 BCE he was elected consul for the following year alongside Claudius Marcellus, as opponents to Caesar < ref > Caesar, < i > B. G .</ i > 8. 50, and was an active and vocal participant in the increasingly hysterical scenes < ref > Meier p. 341-346 ; Plutarch, < i > Pomp .</ i > § 59 ; Caesar, < i > B. C .</ i > i. 1-5 in the senate in late 50 and January 49 as Caesar sought to secure a safe consulship whilst a reactionary group of senators sought to have him stripped of command.

We are told by Plutarch, that Solon " is much commended for his law concerning wills ; for before his time no man was allowed to make any, but all the wealth of deceased persons belonged to their families ; but he permitted them to bestow it on whom they pleased, esteeming friendship a stronger tie than kindred, and affection than necessity, and thus put every man's estate in the disposal of the possessor ; yet he allowed not all sorts of wills, but required the following conditions in all persons that made them:

In Fragment 6 ( Plutarch, Numa, 15 and elsewhere ) following the nymph's advice he summons Jupiter ( mythology ) | Jupiter from heaven and forces him to accept a remedy of onion and fish heads to counter the effects of a lightning strike, instead of the human heads proposed by the god.

It was quoted by Plutarch in a biography of Themistocles, as were the following two fragments, 728 and 729 ( see Life above for historical context ).

The origins of the following superstitions are not so clear, but there is speculation in Plutarch, Festus, and Pliny the Elder.

Diodorus however does not have anything to say about the sexual orientation of Epaminondas or the Sacred Band, nor does he say anything about the following account, again from Plutarch ( Amatorius 17 ).

The Greek term Χιλίαρχος is said to be used to translate the Roman tribunus militum ( following Polybius ), and also for the phrase tribuni militares consulari potestate ( Plutarch ).