Plutarch, in Moralia, presents a discussion on why the letter alpha stands first in the alphabet.

* a passage in Plutarch Moralia ( 162b ).

: originally from Plutarch, Moralia, c. 95 AD, regarding the death of Euripides

Cicero calls Herodotus the " father of history ;" yet the Greek writer Plutarch, in his Moralia ( Ethics ) denigrated Herodotus, as the " father of lies ".

In volume 8 of the Moralia, in the books entitled Table-talk, Plutarch discussed a series of arguments based on questions posed in a symposium.

* Plutarch, Moralia.

* Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum (" On the Decline of Oracles ") and De Pythiae Oraculis (" On the Oracles of the Pythia "), in Moralia, vol.

* Plutarch, Moralia

About this time two requests were made to him for an edition of the Moralia of Plutarch, for which a recension of the tract De sera numinis vindicta had marked him out in the eyes of scholars.

# Plutarch – Parallel Lives ; Moralia

He translated seven books of Diodorus Siculus ( 1554 ), the Daphnis et Chloë of Longus ( 1559 ) and the Opera Moralia of Plutarch ( 1572 ).

# Plutarch – Parallel Lives ; Moralia

3 ; pages 259-260 ) have noted that Plutarch ( in the Moralia, V ) reported that Typhon / Seth in Egyptian and Greek myth was identified as the shadow of the Earth which covers the Moon during lunar eclipses.

* Sayings of Iphicrates, from the Moralia of Plutarch

Yet Alexander the Great was very interested in Egypt ; Plutarch himself wrote a work On Isis and Osiris, part of the Moralia, which is major source on Egypt.

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

LacusCurtius has the Loeb translation by Bernadotte Perrin ( published 1914 ‑ 1926 ) of part of the Moralia and all the Lives ; see http :// penelope. uchicago. edu / Thayer / E / Roman / Texts / Plutarch / home. html

* Cicero, De seneclute, vii. 22 ; Plutarch, Moralia, 785 B ;

* According to Plutarch, Moralia Macedonians use ' b ' instead of ' ph ', while Delphians use ' b ' in the place of ' p '.

The Moralia ( ancient Greek — loosely translatable as Matters relating to customs and mores ) of the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea is an eclectic collection of 78 essays and transcribed speeches.

The Moralia include On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander the Great — an important adjunct to his Life of the great general — On the Worship of Isis and Osiris ( a crucial source of information on Egyptian religious rites ), and On the Malice of Herodotus ( which may, like the orations on Alexander's accomplishments, have been a rhetorical exercise ), in which Plutarch criticizes what he sees as systematic bias in the Father of History's work ; along with more philosophical treatises, such as On the Decline of the Oracles, On the Delays of the Divine Vengeance, On Peace of Mind and lighter fare, such as Odysseus and Gryllus, a humorous dialog between Homer's Odysseus and one of Circe's enchanted pigs.

In Moralia, Plutarch agrees with Plato that the soul is more divine than the body while nous is more divine than the soul.

* Plutarch, Moralia, " On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander ", ii.

Greek historian Plutarch discusses an argument between Chrysippus ( 3rd century BCE ) and Hipparchus ( 2nd century BCE ) of a rather delicate enumerative problem, which was later shown to be related to Schröder 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.

In the early 2nd century AD, Plutarch wrote the most complete ancient account of the myth in De Iside et Osiride, an analysis of Egyptian religious beliefs.

A still more significant variation in the ancient historical account appears in the writing of Plutarch in the late 1st – early 2nd century AD :" Athens was torn by recurrent conflict about the constitution.

If the source is Plutarch, then a date after the first quarter of the 2nd century is indicated.

Plutarch ( 1st and 2nd centuries ), Thomas Aquinas ( 13th century ), Nicholas Remy ( 16th century ), and Henri Boguet ( 16th and 17th centuries ), among others, disagreed, saying that demons did not know lust or desire and cannot have good feelings like love ; as jealousy would be a consequence of love, they could not be jealous.

Gaius Blossius ( 2nd century BC ) was, according to Plutarch, a philosopher and student of the Stoic philosopher Antipater of Tarsus, from the city of Cumae in Campania, Italy, who ( along with the Greek rhetorician, Diophanes ) instigated Roman tribune Tiberius Gracchus to pursue a land reform movement on behalf of the plebs.

The architects Mnesikles and Callicrates are said to have called the building Hekatompedos (" the hundred footer ") in their lost treatise on Athenian architecture, and, in the 4th century and later, the building was referred to as the Hekatompedos or the Hekatompedon as well as the Parthenon ; the 1st-century AD writer Plutarch referred to the building as the Hekatompedon Parthenon.

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.

Plutarch, the Greek historian and biographer of the 1st century, dealt with the blissful and mythic past of the humanity.

After 200 BC at any given time there were two priests of Apollo, who were in charge of the entire sanctuary ; Plutarch, who served as a priest during the late first century and early second century AD, gives us the most information about the organization of the oracle at that time.

A century after Plutarch, Aelian also said that Peistratus had been Solon's eromenos.

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, in his Life of the Roman general Aemilius Paulus, records that the victor over Macedon, when he beheld the statue, “ was moved to his soul, as if he had seen the god in person ,” while the 1st century AD Greek orator Dio Chrysostom declared that a single glimpse of the statue would make a man forget all his earthly troubles.

" Certainly, when Pausanias toured Greece about a century after Plutarch, he found Pan's shrines, sacred caves and sacred mountains still very much frequented.

133 (= Stobaeus 4. 52. 43 ) " ..." Plutarch ( first century CE ) is the earliest source for her name that is now available to us.

He studied under Plutarch ( the Neoplatonist ) at Athens in the early 5th century, and taught for some years in his native city.

She was a devout member of the orgiastic snake-worshiping cult of Dionysus, and it is suggested by the 1st century AD biographer, Plutarch, that she may have slept

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.

In the second century AD the Emperor Hadrian, according to Dion Cassius, was the first of all the Caesars to grow a beard ; Plutarch says that he did it to hide scars on his face.

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 ).

Plutarch, writing in the 1st century AD, connected the Hyperboreans with the Gauls who had sacked Rome in the 4th century BC ( see Battle of the Allia ).