Plutarch's Life of Caesar deals with the best known Roman of them all, Julius Caesar, and his vivid narrative covers most of the major events of the last generation of the Republic, as well as painting an insightful picture of this man who sacrificed everything for power. Pelling's volume...
The Life of Marius(157-86)6.2 …(Caesar) in some degree, because of his relationship,made Marius his example, as I have stated in his Life. (See the Caesar, v.1 f.)9.1 …bestowed arms…only on those whose property assessment made them worthy to receive these, each soldier being suppo...
Google Share on Facebook Parallel Lives (redirected fromPlutarch's Lives) Related to Plutarch's Lives:Plutarchus ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: Noun1.Parallel Lives- a collection of biographies of famous pairs of Greeks and Romans written by Plutarch; used by Shakespeare in writing some...
(2005), „Hellenism and tryphÞ in Plutarch's Life of Lucullus", in De Blois et alii (Hrsg.) oben (siehe Bremer), The Statesman…, v. II, 303 – 313. 386 Evangelos Alexiou Van der Stockt, L. (1995), „L'homme d'état et les beaux arts", in Gallo-Scardigli (Hrsg.) ...
In his Life of Alexander the Great, Plutarch states that his purpose in writing is "...not to write histories, but lives." Rather than write a detailed biography of each individual, Plutarch used details and anecdotes from the life of each subject to give his readers an overarching view of...
, a visceral encyclopedia of those who fought for women's suffrage. Best books of 2018: Biography It is tempting to try to cut and paste all the references to Epaminondas from the Life of Agesilaus and the Life of Pelopidas together with the references to Epaminondas from the Moralia ...
1It is the life of Alexander the king, and of Caesar, who overthrew Pompey, that I am writing in this book, and the multitude of the deeds to be treated is so great that I shall make no other preface than to entreat my readers, in case I do not tell of all the famous actions ...
In chapter 2 of his Life of Julius Caesar, the Greek historian Plutarch of Chaeronea (46-c.120) describes what happened when Caesar encountered the Cilician pirates, who infested the Aegean Sea, in 75 BCE. To that point, the Cilician’s had regularly offered the Roman senators slaves, ...
6d.Selections from Plutarch's Life of Caesar. By R. L. A. Du Pontet. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1906. 2s.Livy, the Second Macedonian War. By W. J. Hemsley and John Aston. London : Blackie and Son, 1s. 6d.M. Tulli Ciceronis pro Sexto Roscio Amerino Oratio. Edited by J. C. ...
As to Caesar, when he was called upon, he gave no testimony against Clodius, nor did he affirm that he was certain of any injury done to his bed. He only said, "He had divorced Pompeia because the wife of Caesar ought not only to be clear of such a crime, but of the very suspi...