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Plutarch
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Plutarch (ad
c.50–
c.125), biographer and moralist, the most popular of Greek authors at the time of the Renaissance. His
Parallel Lives exemplified the tradition of biography associated with the Peripatetic school, illustrating the moral character of his subjects through a series of anecdotes. Translated by T.
North (1579), they served as a source-book for Shakespeare's Roman plays and later as a model for I.
Walton's Lives (1670).
Dryden gave a pioneer analysis of their style and structure in his
Life of Plutarch (1683).
The
Moral Essays provide a compendium of ancient wisdom on moral philosophy, religious belief, education, health, literary criticism, and social customs. Individual essays were translated into English during the 16th cent., and material from Plutarch's Morals can be found in a number of Elizabethan authors:
Elyot,
Painter,
Lyly, Thomas Fennes,
Meres, Cornwallis,
Chapman. The first complete version in English, by
Holland, appeared in 1603. After the middle years of the 17th cent., when they were read by Jeremy
Taylor and
Milton, the popularity of the
Moral Essays declined, by which time there were more recent examples of the genre. (See also
biography.)
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PLUTARCH: AT BEST A NAME TO MOST PEOPLE
News Wire article from: United Press International; 7/1/2002; 700+ words
; 00-00-0000 Plutarch: At best a name to most people NEW...Like all ancient authors today, Plutarch is at best a name to most people, even...select group, because you know that Plutarch (c. 46 - c. 120) was a Greek biographer...
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Plutarch & the issue of character.
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 12/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...please and instruct like the Lives of Plutarch? ... I am of the same Opinion with...Books of the Antients into the Sea, PLUTARCH should be the last drowned. --Montesquieu...improving one's own character? --Plutarch, life of Timoleon Like all ancient authors...
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Plutarch among the postcolonialists.(Viewpoint essay)
Magazine article from: Perspectives on Political Science; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Abstract: Postcolonial interpreters of Plutarch attempt to resolve apparent contradictions between the rhetoric of the Lives and Plutarch's attitudes toward Roman dominion by...seriously the fundamental importance of Plutarch's identity as a Platonic philosopher...
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Pouring the wrong wax in the literary mold: Plutarch's Mdrius and Homer's Odyssey.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: College Literature; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...genre of epic, the ancient biographer Plutarch creates poignant connections between...statesman, while Odysseus is portrayed by Plutarch as a man of virtue who is always concerned...qualities that aid Odysseus and charm Plutarch. Implicit comparisons to Odysseus and...
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Plutarch and His Intellectual World.(Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 12/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Medieval/L'Antiquite et le Moyen Age Plutarch and His Intellectual World, edite par...1994, organise par l'International Plutarch Society. Comme le precise l'introduction...Favorinus ("Hadrian, Favorinus, and Plutarch"). C'est aussi le souci de Jan Opsomer...
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Flattery in Shakespeare's Othello: the relevance of Plutarch and Sir Thomas Elyot.
Magazine article from: Comparative Drama; 3/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...from a Friend" is the title of one of Plutarch's most famous Moralia, but the phrase...the trust and respect of others. (1) Plutarch's essay was designed to address a crucial...than it might at first appear, since Plutarch (and many others) insisted that the...
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Plutarch's 'Life of Alexander' and Joel Chandler Harris's story of "Brother Rabbit, Brother Fox and Two Fat Pullets" (1918).
Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly; 3/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...else besides vegetables. She told how Plutarch said something about the sheep eating...moments of reflection, he exclaims "Plutarch! Is Miss Sally say what plantation he...Ferginny, kaze ef dey'd `a' been any Plutarch... I'd `a' know'd him" (p...
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According to the biographers.(Julius Caesar according to Plutarch and Suetonius)(Biography)
Magazine article from: Calliope; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...pages of two ancient biographers--Plutarch and Suetonius. One a Greek and the other a Roman, both Plutarch and Suetonius lived and wrote around...s challenges were the questions that Plutarch and Suetonius asked and tried to answer...
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Who gives a fig (tree a name)?: chronotopic conflicts in Plutarch's Romulus.
Magazine article from: Intertexts; 3/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...topics by any means. The Greek biographer Plutarch exhibits a similar obsession with issues...interpretive schemes in his Life of Romulus. Plutarch shows an intense preoccupation with the...introduces a number of unique problems. Plutarch is faced with a number of difficulties...
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The Reception of Plutarch's Lives in Fifteenth-Century Italy.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; Marianne Pade. The Reception of Plutarch's Lives in Fifteenth-Century Italy...ISBN: 978-87-635-0532-1. Plutarch's Lives were essential reading in the...the sixty-two Latin translations of Plutarch's Lives made from 1400 to 1462. In...
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Plutarch
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Plutarch The Greek biographer, historian, essayist, and moralist Plutarch (ca. 46-ca. 120) has been described as one...influential writers who ever lived. Paradoxically, Plutarch the man who was the biographer of many others...
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Superstition
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...positive uses never entirely ceased. Plutarch (c. 46 – after 119 c.e...superstitious person lived in constant terror. Plutarch included a wider range of religious behavior...Theophrastus and many other ancient writers, Plutarch emphasized the grim rather than the comic...
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Archimedes
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...ruler of Syracuse, King Hieron II (as Plutarch and Polybius suggest). At least he...Archimedes ’ death by Livy, Plutarch, Valerius Maximus, and Tzetzes, which...mathematics at the time of his death. Plutarch tells us ( Marcellus , Ch. XVII) that...
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Madame Roland
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...the age of nine, Manon discovered Plutarch's Lives which made an indelible impression upon her. It was Plutarch, she later admitted, who made her...made the same impression on me as had Plutarch when I was nine … . Plutarch...
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Shakespeare's Plays
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Pistol History Julius Caesar 1599 1623 Plutarch, Lives (tr. by Sir Thomas North...Tragedy Antony and Cleopatra 1606 1623 Plutarch, Lives (tr. 1579) Mark Antony Cleopatra...Octavius Caesar Tragedy Coriolanus 1607 1623 Plutarch Coriolanus Tullus Aufidius Caius Marcius...
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