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    Plutarch (/ˈpluːtɑːrk/; Ancient Greek: Πλούταρχος, Ploútarchos, Koinē Greek: [ˈplúːtarkʰos]; c. AD 40 – 120s) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher...
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  • Look up Plutarch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Plutarch of Chaeronea (c. 46–120) was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist...
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    Greek by the Greco-Roman philosopher, historian, and Apollonian priest Plutarch, probably at the beginning of the second century. The lives are arranged...
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  • underground rebellion organised by the supposedly destroyed District 13 and Plutarch Heavensbee. In the third installment, she is caught in a love triangle...
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  • Pseudo-Plutarch is the conventional name given to the actual, but unknown, authors of a number of pseudepigrapha (falsely attributed works) attributed...
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  • Greek σκάφη, meaning "boat"), also known as the boats, is reported by Plutarch in his Life of Artaxerxes as an ancient Persian method of execution. He...
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    Green 2007, pp. 15–16. Plutarch 1919, V, 2 Green 2007, p. 4. Plutarch 1919, IV, 4 Arrian 1976, VII, 29 Plutarch 1919, VII, 1 Plutarch 1919, VIII, 1 Arrian...
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    Servile War, also called the Gladiator War and the War of Spartacus by Plutarch, was the last in a series of slave rebellions against the Roman Republic...
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  • AD by the Greek moralist Plutarch, as part of his Parallel Lives. In this book comparing Greek and Roman statesmen, Plutarch paired Caesar with Alexander...
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  • Plutarch (Ancient Greek: Πλούταρχος; fl. 4th century BC) was a tyrant of Eretria in Euboea. Whether he was the immediate successor of Themison, and also...
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    ('Aphrodite of all the People') on the southern slope of the Acropolis. Plutarch's Life of Theseus makes use of varying accounts of the death of the Minotaur...
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    accounts of his life come primarily from Plutarch and Appian, who wrote more than a century after his death. Plutarch's Life of Crassus and Appian's Civil Wars...
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  • Plutarch of Byzantium (Ancient Greek: Πλούταρχος; died 105) served as Bishop of Byzantium for sixteen years (89 – 105) in succession to Polycarpus I of...
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    Plutarch of Athens (Greek: Πλούταρχος ὁ Ἀθηναῖος; c. 350 – 430 AD) was a Greek philosopher and Neoplatonist who taught in Athens at the beginning of the...
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    Phlegyas, pp. 367–368. Pseudo-Plutarch, On Rivers, 3.2. Apollodorus, 1.7.7; Brill's New Pauly, s.v. Thestius. Pseudo-Plutarch, On Rivers, 22.1. Apollodorus...
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    479–323 BC, 33–34 Plutarch, Pericles, XVI Plutarch, Pericles, VII Plutarch, Pericles, IX Aristotle, Constitution of Athens, 27 Plutarch, Cimon, XV L.J....
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  • officials — including District 12's cruel tribute escort Drusilla Sickle and Plutarch Heavensbee, a cameraman sympathetic to the tributes — appoint Haymitch...
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    away from the Path of Asha, would eventually be defeated. According to Plutarch, Zoroaster named "Arimanius" as one of the two rivals who were the artificers...
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    was already married to him when she eloped with Theseus. According to Plutarch, Paion the Amathusian recounted Theseus accidentally abandoned Ariadne...
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  • be located in Alexandria, Egypt. According to historians Suetonius and Plutarch, the Roman leader Octavian permitted their burial together after he had...
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    Sources often contradict one another. They include the histories of Livy, Plutarch, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and Tacitus as well as the work of Virgil...
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  • The Plutarch Award, established in 2013, is an annual literary award for biographies presented by the Biographers International Organization. It is named...
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    equinoxes. He was also an engineer, known for having diverted the Halys River. Plutarch wrote that "at that time, Thales alone had raised philosophy from mere...
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    the first Ptolemaic ruler known to have learned the Egyptian language. Plutarch implies that she also spoke Ethiopian, the language of the "Troglodytes"...
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    missing publisher (link) Plutarch (1891), Bernardakis, Gregorius N. (ed.), Moralia, Plutarch (in Greek), Leipzig: Teubner Plutarch (2005), Richard J.A. Talbert...
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  • Charmian, was a trusted servant and advisor to Cleopatra VII of Egypt. Plutarch, in his Parallel Lives biography of Mark Antony, writes that Charmion managed...
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    Coronea (447 BC), Pericles and Ariphron became his guardians. According to Plutarch, Alcibiades had several famous teachers, including Socrates, and was well...
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    (PDF). Hirundo. 8: 23. Plutarch, Parallel Lives, Life of Crassus, 4.1 Plutarch, Parallel Lives, Life of Crassus, 6.1 Plutarch, Parallel Lives, Life of...
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    Plutarch is a lunar impact crater that lies near the north-northeastern limb of the Moon, just to the south of the irregular crater Seneca. To the southeast...
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    the cult of Romulus, and the office of pontifex maximus. According to Plutarch, Numa was the youngest of Pomponius's four sons, born on the day of Rome's...
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