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Theseus - The Athenian Adventurer
Abridged modern English version of plutarch's life of Theseus, the founder of Athens.
http://www.e-classics.com/theseus.htm

Extractions: Theseus suppressed crime and brought the natives of Attica together into the first democracy. He saved the Athenian children from the Minotaur, but his kidnap of the queen of the Amazons brought trouble, and he ended his days in disgrace. Go to Home Page for 15 Greek Heroes from Plutarch's Lives As geographers add notes in the margins of their maps, to the effect that regions beyond are dangerous and barren , I might say as well regarding those records available of lives from a past which is more distant than reliable history: only fiction and legends can be found there. Perhaps the purifying process of reason may reduce the following legends into an exact history. However, should they offend by refusing to be reduced to anything like probable fact, I hope that candid readers will indulge these stories of ancient times. Aegeus, the king of Athens, wanted a son to be heir to his kingdom. He went to the oracle at Delphi to ask advice on this matter. The statement of the oracle seemed to indicate that Aegeus should
Great Books Index - Plutarch
plutarch (about 66 AD). plutarch's Parallel Lives Complete Text edition in onefile (ftp, Gutenberg at Illinois, 4.2MB) Translated by Arthur Hugh Clough.
http://books.mirror.org/gb.plutarch.html
The Little Sailing
Ancient Greek texts in Unicode encoding including Aeschylus, Apollodorous, Aristotle, Aristophanes, Euripides, Hesiod, Homer, Lucian, plutarch, Thucydides, and Xenophon. Some texts are with sideby-side translation.
http://users.otenet.gr/~aper/en/

Extractions: Full original texts to download or to browse side by side with their translation Giannis Skaribas Ten poems of Giannis Skaribas (in Greek) Stelios Doumenis Three poems of Stelios Doumenis (in Greek) Extracts Short texts from Greek literature Links Ancient Greek texts, Greek literature, etexts What's new Additions and corrections Greek version:
Siege Of Syracuse
Describes the role of Archimedes and other key figures in the siege of Syracuse during the Second Punic War, as well as accounts by Polybius, Livy, and plutarch.
http://www.mcs.drexel.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/Siege/Summary.html

Extractions: Syracuse A t the beginning of the third century BC , the Mediterranean basin was controlled by the Carthaginians in the west and the Greeks in the east. The Romans controlled only a small area around Rome, but were poised to march. They locked horns with Carthage in the First Punic War (264-241 BC ), during which they greatly expanded their territory, although they did not capture the city of Carthage itself. The Greek city of Syracuse, where Archimedes lived, initially supported Carthage. But early in the war Rome forced a treaty of alliance from Syracuse's king, Hiero II , that called for Syracuse to pay tribute and provide grain to the Romans. T he Romans and Carthaginians renewed their antagonisms in 218 BC , the beginning of the Second Punic War. Under Hannibal, Carthage gained the first round of victories, culminating in Hannibal's crossing of the Alps into Italy (218 BC ) and his defeat of the Romans at Cannae (216 BC ). Hannibal's successes in Italy helped convince many Syracusans that they were allied with the wrong side.
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Extractions: page 4 I.iv.47-55 page 5 I.iv.56-71 page 6 I.v.29-34,69-75 Act 2 page 7 II.ii.94-102 page 8 II.ii.117-154 page 9 II.ii.159-165 page 10 II.ii.177-185 page 11 II.ii.192-238 page 12 II.iii.13-37 page 13 II.v.10-20 page 14 II.vi.34-39 page 15 II.vi.78-81 page 16 II.vii.62-81 Act 3 page 17 III.i.11-27 page 18 III.iv.1-10 page 19 III.vi.38-60 page 20 III.vi.1-21 page 21 III.vi.22-29 page 22 III.vi.30-37 page 23 III.vi.66-76 page 24 III.vii.1-15 page 25 III.vii.15-19 page 26 III.vii.27-49 page 27 III.vii.30-34 page 28 III.vii.50-53 page 29 III.vii.57-59 page 30 III.vii.60-66 page 31 III.vii.72-77 page 32 III.X.2-3/IV.xii.3-6 page 33 III. x.10-15 III.x.24-25 page 34 III. x.17-30 page 35 III.xi.1-24 page 36 III.xii.1-7, 11-15 page 37 III.xii.19-33 page 38 III.xiii.73-88, 131-132, 139-152 Act 4 page 39 IV.ii.1-7 page 40 IV.ii.9-45 page 41 IV.iii.11-23 page 42 IV.v.6-17 IV.vi.12-39 IV.ix.7-23
The Internet Classics Archive | Pompey By Plutarch
Original source biography of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus ( Pompey )by plutarch, trans. John Dryden.
http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/pompey.html

Extractions: The generous offspring of my enemy!" For on the one hand, never did the Romans give such demonstrations of a vehement and fierce hatred against any of their generals as they did against Strabo, the father of Pompey; during whose lifetime, it is true, they stood in awe of his military power, as indeed he was a formidable warrior, but immediately upon his death, which happened by a stroke of thunder, they treated him with the utmost
Perseus Encyclopedia Plutarch
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=encyclopedia Plutarch
The Internet Classics Archive | Marcus Brutus By Plutarch
Classic biography of Marcus Brutus by plutarch Internet Classics Archive
http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/m_brutus.html

Extractions: Marcus Brutus was descended from that Junius Brutus to whom the ancient Romans erected a statue of brass in the capitol among the images of their kings with a drawn sword in his hand, in remembrance of his courage and resolution in expelling the Tarquins and destroying the monarchy. But that ancient Brutus was of a severe and inflexible nature, like steel of too hard a temper, and having never had his character softened by study and thought, he let himself be so far transported with his rage and hatred against tyrants that, for conspiring with them, he proceeded to the execution even of his own sons. But this Brutus, whose life we now write, having
Project Gutenberg Edition Of Plutarch's Lives ("Dryden" Translation)
Project Gutenberg Presents. plutarch's Lives ( Dryden translation).by plutarch. edited by Arthur Hugh Clough. Project Gutenberg Release
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=674
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All of the classic biographies of heroes and villains from ancient Greece and Rome. The English text is awkward and antiquated, but it's the complete Dryden edition (1683), as revised by A.H. Clough (1864).
http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/index-Plutarch.html

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Project Gutenberg Edition Of The Boys' And Girls' Plutarch, Being Parts Of The "
Project Gutenberg Presents. The Boys' and Girls' plutarch, Being Parts of The Lives of plutarch Edited for Boys and Girls. by plutarch. edited by John S. White.
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=2484
Plutarch's ALEXANDER
Translated by John Dryden.
http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Renault/fire.plutarch.html

Extractions: text source image source Philip, after this vision, sent Chaeron of Megalopolis to consult the oracle of Apollo at Delphi, by which he was commanded to perform sacrifice, and henceforth pay particular honour, above all other gods, to Ammon; and was told he should one day lose that eye with which he presumed to peep through that chink of the door, when he saw the god, under the form of a serpent, in the company of his wife. Eratosthenes says that Olympias, when she attended Alexander on his way to the army in his first expedition, told him the secret of his birth, and bade him behave himself with courage suitable to his divine extraction. Others again affirm that she wholly disclaimed any pretensions of the kind, and was wont to say, "When will Alexander leave off slandering me to Juno?" Alexander was born the sixth of Hecatombaeon, which month the Macedonians call Lous, the same day that the temple of Diana at Ephesus was burnt; which Hegesias of Magnesia makes the occasion of a conceit, frigid enough to have stopped the conflagration. The temple, he says, took fire and was burnt while its mistress was absent, assisting at the birth of Alexander. And all the Eastern soothsayers who happened to be then at Ephesus, looking upon the ruin of this temple to be the forerunner of some other calamity, ran about the town, beating their faces, and crying that this day had brought forth something that would prove fatal and destructive to all Asia.
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The Total Solar Eclipse Described By Plutarch
The Total Solar Eclipse Described by plutarch 1. FR Stephenson andLJ plutarch's description of the eclipse. In this account, which
http://www.dur.ac.uk/Classics/histos/1998/stephenson.html

Extractions: In his dialogue On the face on the moon , the Greek biographer, historian and philosopher, Plutarch (ca. A.D. 45-120), gives a vivid description of a major eclipse of the sun. On the not unreasonable assumption that this description refers to a real historical observation of an eclipse which was fully total, there have been several attempts to date the event by astronomical calculation: notably those by Ginzel , Fotheringham and Sandbach . Dates that have been proposed range from A.D. 71 to 83, all in the early part of Plutarch's life. The Loeb editors give a useful survey of the debate. Several decades have now elapsed since the dating of the eclipse was last considered in detail. Recent studies of earth's past rotation enable the exact dates and fairly precise local circumstances (e.g. magnitudes and local times) for all eclipses in a selected period and at a given place to be computed. In the light of this new research, it seems appropriate to reconsider the eclipse which Plutarch mentions in the De facie . It will here be argued that the eclipse of March 20, 71, is by far the most likely of the various possibilities and is indeed virtually certain; the investigation should also put the exact nature of the eclipse beyond doubt, vindicate Plutarch's description as (by classical standards) an extremely accurate observation rather than a mere literary construction, and (hence) provide us with a fixed point (one of the very few fixed points) of Plutarch's own biography.
Perseus Encyclopedia
With bibliography, from the Perseus Project.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0004&que
Plutarch's Pyrrhus And Euripides' Phoenician Women
plutarch's Pyrrhus and Euripides' Phoenician Women Biography and Tragedyon Pleonectic Parenting. Section 2 Approaching plutarch's Pyrrhus.
http://www.dur.ac.uk/Classics/histos/1997/braund.html

Extractions: The principal concern of this paper is to explore the relevance of Euripides' Phoenician Women to Plutarch's Life of Pyrrhus. It will be argued that the relevance of the play is much more substantial than usually acknowledged: that its relevance goes beyond the two direct quotations from the play which occur in the Life . It is worth stressing at the outset that of the five quotations from the play in Plutarch's extant Lives as a whole, two are in the Pyrrhus : that may plausibly be claimed as a concentration ( Pyrrh. 9 and 14; cf. Demetr Sull Comp. Nic.-Crass . 4). In what follows, I shall attempt to explain how and why the play matters to a reading of the Life . The essence of my claim is that the reader's knowledge of Euripides' play is made to provide what may be termed "added value" to Plutarch's Life , with the further validation of Euripidean authority. The general relevance to Plutarch's Lives of Athenian tragedy (and indeed of Homeric epic) has long been recognised. And Judith Mossman has explored tragic and epic elements in the
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Bucephalus , Plutarch
Bucephalus, plutarch Philonicus the Thessalian brought the horseBucephalus to Philip, offering to sell him for thirteen talents
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Alexander In Egypt, Plutarch
Alexander in Egypt, plutarch This is attested by many credible authors,and if what those of Alexandria tell us, relying upon the
http://www.1stmuse.com/alex3/egypt.html
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plutarch (45120), plutarch, historian, around AD 46-120, born atChaeronea, Boeotia, in Greece during the Roman Empire. plutarch
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Extractions: Plutarch, historian, around A.D. 46-120, born at Chaeronea, Boeotia, in Greece during the Roman Empire. Plutarch travelled widely in the Mediterranean world until he returned to Boeotia, becoming a priest at the temple of Apollo at Delphi. His most important historical work is the Parallel Lives , in which he arranges 46 biographies of leading Greeks and leading Romans in tandem to illuminate their shared moral virtues or failings. This moralizing approach to history makes it difficult to rely on Plutarch for certain kinds of details, though his dates are not usually troublesome. After having been trained in philosophy at Athens he travelled and stayed some time at Rome, where he lectured on philosophy and undertook the education of Hadrian. Trajan bestowed consular rank upon him, and Hadrian appointed him procurator of Greece. He died in his native town, where he was archon and priest of the Pythian Apollo. In the Consolation to his Wife on the loss of his young daughter, he tells us that they had brought up four sons besides, one of whom was called by the name of Plutarch's brother, Lamprias. We learn incidentally from this treatise that the writer had been initiated in the secret mysteries of Dionysus, which held that the soul was imperishable. He seems to have been an independent thinker rather than an adherent of any particular school of philosophy. His vast acquaintance with the literature of his time is everywhere apparent.

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