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Plutarch This ancient-Greek historian and philosopher became the main source for Shakespeare’s Roman plays. Plutarch produced a text calledParallel Livesin around 100 AD that contains over 40 biographies of Greek and Roman leaders. Source for:Antony and Cleopatra,Coriolanus,Julius CaesarandTimon of ...
“Celtic artist took over and reproduced even the smallest details of Greek floral ornament, but they did not feel bound by the original system, but broke it down into ‘meaningless’ individual elements from which they could create something new.” This meant that the Celts developed their own...
Plutarch wrote in ''Parallel Lives'' about Cato the Elder. What can be learned about the lives of slaves of other masters in the period from the description of Cato's treatment of his slaves? What was a polis in ancient Greece? What type of government did the Indus River Valley have?
What promise did Hannibal make to the people of Carthage? What did Hannibal take through the Alps? What did Julius Caesar write after conquering the Gauls? What did Commodus name Rome? What tactic did Scipio use to defeat Hannibal? What happened to Hannibal after he returned to Carthage? How...
What did Virgil and Livy write about? What happened to the traitor that Marcus Aurelius pardoned? What nationality was Julius Caesar? What talents of Cicero did Petrarch praise? How old was Augustus Caesar when he died? How is Solon portrayed in Plutarch's biography? What was the main point...