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 recounts that " honors he enjoyed were far beyond those paid to other foreigners ; nay, he actually took part in the King's hunts and in his household diversions.

In his Life of Sertorius cited above, Plutarch recounts what he says to be a local myth, according to which Heracles consorted with Tinge after the death of Antaeus and had by her a son Sophax, who named a city in North Africa Tingis after his mother.

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

Plutarch recounts that prior to the battle, Viridomarus spotted Marcellus, who wore commander insignia upon his armor, and rode out to meet him.

Plutarch recounts a few other stories as well.

Plutarch recounts that Cato saw the commission as an attempt to be rid of him, and initially refused the assignment.

Plutarch, in his Life of Nicias, recounts how the news reached the city:

Plutarch, in the Life of Cimon, recounts his first triumph of the young talented Sophocles against the famous and hitherto unchallenged Aeschylus, which ended in an unusual manner, without the usual draw for the referees, and that caused the voluntary exile of Aeschylus Sicily.

Greek historian Plutarch recounts that Periander, the tyrant of Ambracia, asked his " boy ", " Aren't you pregnant yet?

Plutarch relates that Alexander worshiped the spear he slew his uncle with as if it were a god.

However, several other biographers of Alexander dispute the claim, including the highly regarded secondary source, Plutarch.

Plutarch tells a story that at Bactra, in 327 BC in a debate with Callisthenes, he advised all to worship Alexander as a god even during his lifetime, is with greater probability attributed to the Sicilian Cleon.

Plutarch states that, when questioned by Scipio as to who was the greatest general, Hannibal is said to have replied either Alexander or Pyrrhus, then himself, or, according to another version of the event, Pyrrhus, Scipio, then himself.

Reynolds made extracts in his commonplace book from Theophrastus, Plutarch, Seneca, Marcus Antonius, Ovid, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Alexander Pope, John Dryden, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Aphra Behn and passages on art theory by Leonardo da Vinci, Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy, and André Félibien.

* Plutarch writes his Parallel Lives of Famous Men ( in Greek Βίοι Παράλληλοι ) containing fifty biographies, of which 46 are presented as pairs comparing Greek and Roman celebrities — for example Theseus and Romulus, Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, Demosthenes and Cicero.

The significant historians in the period after Alexander were Timaeus, Polybius, Diodorus Siculus, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Appian of Alexandria, Arrian, and Plutarch.

* Plutarch: Life of Alexander

Both Plutarch and Arrian relate that according to Aristobulus, Alexander pulled the knot out of its pole pin, exposing the two ends of the cord and allowing him to untie the knot without having to cut through it.

In his writing Plutarch also makes mention of when Alexander's secondary naval commander, Onesicritus, was reading the Amazon passage of his Alexander history to King Lysimachus of Thrace who was on the original expedition, the king smiled at him and said " And where was I, then?

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.

* The Greek historian / biographer Plutarch of Chaeronea wrote the On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander the Great and " Life of Alexander " in his " Parallel Lives " series, paired with " Life of Julius Caesar "

4, 19, 20, 25: Plutarch, Life of Alexander, 10, 68, 75: Strabo, xv.

Plutarch, Life of Alexander 3 ), that Hegesias is to be classed among the writers of lives of Alexander the Great.

* Plutarch, Alexander, 52-55 ;

Plutarch reports that he met with Alexander the Great, probably around Takshasila in the northwest, and that he viewed the ruling Nanda Empire in a negative light:

Plutarch records that Hannibal ranked Pyrrhus as the greatest commander the world had ever seen, though Appian gives a different version of the story, in which Hannibal placed him second after Alexander the Great.

Plutarch, while writing about Alexander's correspondence, reveals an occasion when Hephaestion was away on business, and Alexander wrote to him.

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.

Plutarch says they were massacred as an offering to the spirit of Hephaestion, and it is quite possible to imagine that to Alexander, this might have followed in spirit Achilles ' killing of "... twelve high-born youths ..." beside Patroclus ' funeral pyre.

Plutarch says that Alexander planned to spend ten thousand talents on the funeral and the tomb.

* Plutarch, Parallel Lives, Alexander, Eumenes

Plutarch provides the most evocative version of this story: But when Egypt revolted with Athenian aid ... and Cimon's mastery of the sea forced the King to resist the efforts of the Hellenes and to hinder their hostile growth ... messages came down to Themistocles saying that the King commanded him to make good his promises by applying himself to the Hellenic problem ; then, neither embittered by anything like anger against his former fellow-citizens, nor lifted up by the great honor and power he was to have in the war, but possibly thinking his task not even approachable, both because Hellas had other great generals at the time, and especially because Cimon was so marvelously successful in his campaigns ; yet most of all out of regard for the reputation of his own achievements and the trophies of those early days ; having decided that his best course was to put a fitting end to his life, he made a sacrifice to the gods, then called his friends together, gave them a farewell clasp of his hand, and, as the current story goes, drank bull's blood, or as some say, took a quick poison, and so died in Magnesia, in the sixty-fifth year of his life ... They say that the King, on learning the cause and the manner of his death, admired the man yet more, and continued to treat his friends and kindred with kindness.

Plutarch reports the peculiar customs associated with the Spartan wedding night: The custom was to capture women for marriage (...) The so-called ' bridesmaid ' took charge of the captured girl.

According to Plutarch, Cleopatra took flight with her ships at the height of the battle and Antony followed her.

There is no scholarly agreement that the oath took place ; it is reported, although differently, by Plutarch ( Poplicola, 2 ) and Appian ( B. C.

Plutarch states that " Nicias declined all difficult and lengthy enterprises ; if he took a command, he was for doing what was safe.

As Plutarch pointed out, " Lucullus the first Roman who carried an army over Taurus, passed the Tigris, took and burnt the royal palaces of Asia in the sight of the kings, Tigranocerta, Cabira, Sinope, and Nisibis, seizing and overwhelming the northern parts as far as the Phasis, the east as far as Media, and making the South and Red Sea his own through the kings of the Arabians.

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.

* 63 BC: Believing in a prediction of the books that ' three Cornelii ' would dominate Rome, Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura took part in the conspiracy of Catiline ( Plutarch, Life of Cicero, XVII )

From this time the Bruttians as a people disappear from history: but their country again became the theatre of war during the revolt of Spartacus, who after his first defeats by Crassus, took refuge in the southernmost portion of Bruttium ( called by Plutarch the Rhegian peninsula ), in which the Roman general sought to confine him by drawing lines of intrenchment across the isthmus from sea to sea.

According to Plutarch, the wealthy Callias took advantage of this situation by proposing to pay the sum if Elpinice would marry him, to which Cimon agreed.

Plutarch uses many good sources but cannot be trusted entirely due to the fact of how many centuries passed between his writing and the events that took place.