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Plutarch and specifically
In a letter to Melanchthon of April 22, 1519, Erasmus specifically adduced the Cretans of Plutarch as an example of his adage " Concord is a mighty rampart ".
While Plutarch singles out the “ order of exclusive society ” that the lovers surrounded themselves with – a society with a specifically defined and clear understanding of the hierarchies of power as determined by birth and status – Shakespeare ’ s play seems more preoccupied with the power dynamics of pleasure as a main theme throughout the play.
Levai notes that while Plutarch ’ s De Iside et Osiride mentions the deity's marriage, there is very little specifically linking Nephthys and Set in the original early Egyptian sources.
Plutarch specifically refers to an example of Nicias ' generosity-his funding of the festival of Delos.
This was inferred from Plutarch, who wrote that Alcibiades had his galley bed hung from ropes, but did not specifically describe it as a net or sling.

Plutarch and mentions
Plutarch mentions that the Athenians saw the phantom of King Theseus, the mythical hero of Athens, leading the army in full battle gear in the charge against the Persians, and indeed he was depicted in the mural of the Stoa Poikile fighting for the Athenians, along with the twelve Olympian gods and other heroes.
Plutarch mentions that ( for much later period ) two days after the beginning of the festival " the priests bring forth a sacred chest containing a small golden coffer, into which they pour some potable water ... and a great shout arises from the company for joy that Osiris is found ( or resurrected ).
Plutarch mentions an interesting element of Epirote folklore regarding Achilles: In his biography of King Pyrrhus, he claims that Achilles " had a divine status in Epirus and in the local dialect he was called Aspetos " ( meaning unspeakable, unspeakably great, in Homeric Greek ).
Despite this, Plutarch mentions that this caused little friction between the two men, and even posits that Tiberius would have never fallen victim to assassination had Scipio not been away campaigning against the very same Numantines given the amount of political clout that Scipio wielded in Rome.
Plutarch mentions a legend that Deucalion and Pyrrha had settled in Dodona, Epirus ; while Strabo asserts that they lived at Cynus, and that her grave is still to be found there, while his may be seen at Athens ; he also mentions a pair of Aegean islands named after the couple.
Information regarding the life of Demetrius are drawn mainly from inscription as only Plutarch writes of him, in Life of Aratus, and Polybius makes scarce mentions of him.
Plutarch also mentions that Ptolemy Philopater owned this immense vessel in his Life of Demetrios.
Plutarch, in his vita of Pericles, 24, mentions lost comedies of Kratinos and Eupolis, which alluded to the contemporary capacity of Aspasia in the household of Pericles, and to Sophocles in The Trachiniae it was shameful for Heracles to serve an Oriental woman in this fashion, but there are many late Hellenistic and Roman references in texts and art to Heracles being forced to do women's work and even wear women's clothing and hold a basket of wool while Omphale and her maidens did their spinning, as Ovid tells: Omphale even wore the skin of the Nemean Lion and carried Heracles ' olive-wood club.
However, Plutarch, who wrote about Eumenes in his series of Parallel Lives, mentions that it was about lodgings, and a flute-player, so perhaps this was an instance of some deeper antagonism breaking out into a quarrel over a triviality.
Of the ancient sources, both Plutarch and Justin mention Barsine and Heracles but Arrian in the Anabasis Alexandri mentions neither.
Plutarch mentions it as reported of Aesopus, that, while representing Atreus deliberating how he should revenge himself on Thyestes, the actor forgot himself so far in the heat of action that with his truncheon he struck and killed one of the servants crossing the stage.
Sulla retained an attachment to the debauched nature of his youth until the end of his life ; Plutarch mentions that during his last marriage – to Valeria – he still kept company with " actresses, musicians, and dancers, drinking with them on couches night and day ".
For this latter invention, Menes ' memory was dishonoured by the Dynasty XXIV pharaoh Tefnakht, and Plutarch mentions a pillar at Thebes on which was inscribed an imprecation against Menes as the introducer of luxury.
It mentions a London inn called The Seven Stars that did not exist before 1602, yet it contains elements that are in Shakespeare's play but not in Plutarch or in Lucian's dialogue, Timon the Misanthrope, the other major accepted source for Shakespeare's play.
However Cicero briefly mentions his praetorship followed by the African command, while the surviving Latin biography, far briefer but more even as biography than Plutarch, comments that he " ruled Africa with the highest degree of justice ".
Plutarch mentions the Carians as being referred to as " cocks " by the Persians on account of their wearing crests on their helmets ; the epithet was expressed in the form of a Persian privilege when a Carian soldier responsible for killing Cyrus the Younger was rewarded by Artaxerxes II ( r. 405 / 404 – 359 / 358 BC ) with the honor of leading the Persian army with a golden cock on the point of his spear.
Plutarch mentions her in the context of fourteen separate anecdotes.
Plutarch mentions his paintings as possessing the Homeric merit of ease and absence of effort.
Plutarch mentions flute-players, who were connected with the cult of Jupiter on the Capitol, as well as guilds of smiths, goldsmiths, tanners.
Plutarch mentions ( Marius 10, 5-6 ) that during the battle, the Ambrones began to shout " Ambrones!
In that period, Plutarch mentions, in the work Parallel Lives, a physician from Amfissa named Philotas ( Marcus Antonius 28 ).

Plutarch and accounts
The knowledge we have of them derives from accounts of later philosophical writers ( especially Aristotle, Plutarch, Diogenes Laërtius, Stobaeus and Simplicius ), and some early theologians, ( especially Clement of Alexandria and Hippolytus of Rome ).
Plautus and Plutarch are the two main sources for accounts of criminals carrying their own patibulum to the upright stipes.
His colleague John Baines, on the other hand, says that temples may have kept written accounts of myths, which later were lost, and that Plutarch could have drawn on such sources to write his narrative.
There is some disagreement between Nepos ( or the pseudo-Nepos ), and Plutarch, in their accounts of this topic.
Other accounts about the origin of the river and its name are given by Stephanus of Byzantium, Strabo, and Plutarch.
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 accounts of Plutarch and Diogenes Laërtius recount that they exchanged only a few words: while Diogenes was relaxing in the sunlight in the morning, Alexander, thrilled to meet the famous philosopher, asked if there was any favour he might do for him.
The Persian army hurried to the location of Alexander's crossing, with the cavalry reaching the scene of the battle first before the slower infantry, and then the battle continued largely as described by the Arrian and Plutarch accounts.
" According to the accounts given by Greek historians Plutarch and Strabo, Artashat is said to have been chosen and developed on the advice of the Carthaginian general Hannibal:
However, Plutarch himself appears to doubt the veracity of these accounts and it is to be doubted if Pammenes actually organized military units along homosexual lines.

Plutarch and Cato's
Plutarch, who had the works of Cato before him, but was careless in dates, did not observe that the estimation of Livy would take back Cato's 17th year to 222, when there was not a Carthaginian in Italy, whereas the computation of Cicero would make the truth of Cato's statement in harmony with the date of Hannibal's first invasion.
Plutarch also tells a story about Cato's peers ' immense respect for him, even at a young age, during the Roman ritual military game, called " Troy ", in which all aristocratic teenagers participated as a sort of " coming of age " ceremony, involving a mock battle with wooden weapons performed on horseback.
The first report of the usage of tironian notes is by Plutarch who notes that in 63 BC it was used to record Cato's denunciation against Catiline:

Plutarch and close
Already perhaps he had a basic knowledge of Greek, for, it is said by Plutarch, that, while at Tarentum in his youth, he became in close friendship with Nearchus, a Greek philosopher, and it is said by Aurelius Victor that while praetor in Sardinia, he received instruction in Greek from Ennius.
According to Plutarch, Albanians " were led by a brother of the king, named Cosis, who as soon as the fighting was at close quarters, rushed upon Pompey himself and smote him with a javelin on the fold of his breastplate ; but Pompey ran him through the body and killed him ".
Plutarch tells of how they could be effective at a distance, but in close combat the narrow thureos shield disadvantaged them.
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.

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