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Who Would Plutarch Write About Today?
David Brooks, Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs Senior Fellow lecture "Who Would P...
published: 13 May 2013
author: YaleUniversity
Who Would Plutarch Write About Today?
Who Would Plutarch Write About Today?
David Brooks, Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs Senior Fellow lecture "Who Would Plutarch Write About Today?"- published: 13 May 2013
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- author: YaleUniversity
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Plutarch in Scotland
23-05-2013 Warburg Institute & Institute of Classical Studies http://www.sas.ac.uk/ http:/...
published: 11 Jun 2013
author: SchAdvStudy
Plutarch in Scotland
Plutarch in Scotland
23-05-2013 Warburg Institute & Institute of Classical Studies http://www.sas.ac.uk/ http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/colloquia/afterlife-of-plutarch/ Plutarch...- published: 11 Jun 2013
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- author: SchAdvStudy
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Isis and Osiris (Plutarch reading - Part 1)
Plutarch's account of his hearing varying versions of the story of Isis and Osiris (and Ho...
published: 01 Mar 2012
author: Culain ruled by Venus
Isis and Osiris (Plutarch reading - Part 1)
Isis and Osiris (Plutarch reading - Part 1)
Plutarch's account of his hearing varying versions of the story of Isis and Osiris (and Horus). I appreciate that he gives equal respect and attention to bot...- published: 01 Mar 2012
- views: 11269
- author: Culain ruled by Venus
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Plutarch Quotes
For More Famous Quotes By Plutarch : http://www.quoteswave.com/authors/plutarch About : Lu...
published: 17 Apr 2013
author: Quoteswave
Plutarch Quotes
Plutarch Quotes
For More Famous Quotes By Plutarch : http://www.quoteswave.com/authors/plutarch About : Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus was a Greek historian, biographer, and ess...- published: 17 Apr 2013
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- author: Quoteswave
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Mark Bauerlein - Young Americans Are the Dumbest Generation
In his provocative new book The Dumbest Generation, Mark Bauerlein argues that "the digita...
published: 23 Jul 2008
author: ReasonTV
Mark Bauerlein - Young Americans Are the Dumbest Generation
Mark Bauerlein - Young Americans Are the Dumbest Generation
In his provocative new book The Dumbest Generation, Mark Bauerlein argues that "the digital age stupefies young Americans and jeopardizes our future" by turn...- published: 23 Jul 2008
- views: 40386
- author: ReasonTV
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Plutarch and Morals
Professor Christopher Pelling of Oxford University talks about his work on the ancient Gre...
published: 29 Mar 2010
author: ClassicsConfidentia1
Plutarch and Morals
Plutarch and Morals
Professor Christopher Pelling of Oxford University talks about his work on the ancient Greek author Plutarch and much more in this interview from www.classic...- published: 29 Mar 2010
- views: 2311
- author: ClassicsConfidentia1
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Plutarch über das Fleischessen (I)
Egregantius liest einen "Essay" von Plutarch über das Fleischessen. Ein weiterer wird noch...
published: 26 Feb 2013
author: Bruder Egregantius
Plutarch über das Fleischessen (I)
Plutarch über das Fleischessen (I)
Egregantius liest einen "Essay" von Plutarch über das Fleischessen. Ein weiterer wird noch folgen!- published: 26 Feb 2013
- views: 135
- author: Bruder Egregantius
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Plutarch
50 Notable Names is a collection of fifty people down through history that are worth learn...
published: 10 Sep 2011
author: LittleBillysWorld
Plutarch
Plutarch
50 Notable Names is a collection of fifty people down through history that are worth learning about and learning from. Notable Name # 25 - Plutarch.- published: 10 Sep 2011
- views: 404
- author: LittleBillysWorld
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - Plutarch and President Snow
All rights to Lionsgate....
published: 11 Apr 2014
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - Plutarch and President Snow
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - Plutarch and President Snow
All rights to Lionsgate.- published: 11 Apr 2014
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Plutarch's Lives - Alexander The Great - Part I - King of Macedonia
http://www.litforbrains.com Watch Part II here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWHe7cl7_c4...
published: 29 Jan 2013
author: litforbrains
Plutarch's Lives - Alexander The Great - Part I - King of Macedonia
Plutarch's Lives - Alexander The Great - Part I - King of Macedonia
http://www.litforbrains.com Watch Part II here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWHe7cl7_c4 Here, we go through a summary of the Life of Alexander The Great, ...- published: 29 Jan 2013
- views: 245
- author: litforbrains
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On Contentment: An Essay by Plutarch - Eckhart Tolle TV
Eckhart presents a timeless teaching on unblocking the obstacles to the living inner peace...
published: 03 Apr 2013
author: Eckhart Tolle
On Contentment: An Essay by Plutarch - Eckhart Tolle TV
On Contentment: An Essay by Plutarch - Eckhart Tolle TV
Eckhart presents a timeless teaching on unblocking the obstacles to the living inner peace that is everyone's birthright. www.EckhartTolleTV.com.- published: 03 Apr 2013
- views: 14807
- author: Eckhart Tolle
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The Hunger Games 2 - Philip Seymour Hoffman is Plutarch Heavensbee in Catching Fire
Philip Seymour Hoffman is Plutarch Heavensbee in The Hunger Games 2 Catching Fire! You mig...
published: 13 Sep 2012
author: BeyondTheTrailer
The Hunger Games 2 - Philip Seymour Hoffman is Plutarch Heavensbee in Catching Fire
The Hunger Games 2 - Philip Seymour Hoffman is Plutarch Heavensbee in Catching Fire
Philip Seymour Hoffman is Plutarch Heavensbee in The Hunger Games 2 Catching Fire! You might not officially meet Plutarch Heavensbee until 2013, but today Be...- published: 13 Sep 2012
- views: 18956
- author: BeyondTheTrailer
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Plutarch Lives - A Folio Society Review
A Short review of Plutarch Lives. This is a 4 Volume set from the Folio Society
Buy this ...
published: 13 Sep 2013
Plutarch Lives - A Folio Society Review
Plutarch Lives - A Folio Society Review
A Short review of Plutarch Lives. This is a 4 Volume set from the Folio Society Buy this set here: http://www.foliosociety.com/book/PTL/plutarch-lives Description from the Folio Society: PLUTARCH - LIVES ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL WORKS OF HISTORY EVER WRITTEN Thomas Jefferson said that there were three books that every gentleman should have to hand: Livy's History of Rome, the Aeneid and Plutarch's Lives. Plutarch's fascinating account of the lives of the greatest Greeks and Romans was one of the first major works of biography as we know it. It had an incalculable effect on Western culture, shaping the way we see the ancient world and influencing writers from Shakespeare to Emerson. This major new Folio Society publication, in four volumes, is introduced by acclaimed historian Tom Holland, and is vividly enhanced by a series of original illustrations by award-winning artist David Rooney. 'We have thought fit', wrote Plutarch in his Life of Pericles, 'to spend our times and pains in writing of the lives of famous persons.' It was an audacious plan, particularly for a Greek citizen of Rome writing in the first century AD. Not only was the art of biography in its infancy, but Plutarch paired celebrated Greeks with Romans, pointing out parallels between them. Greeks were esteemed by the Romans for their art and philosophy, but were not seen as heroes, warriors or law-makers. Plutarch's Greeks, however -- Theseus, Pericles, Alexander -- were no less heroic than the Romans. As introducer Tom Holland writes, this could have struck Roman readers as an exercise in conceited presumption, but the Romans loved the Lives, and their popularity proved instant and enduring. 'We dunces would have been lost if this book had not raised us' MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Plutarch begins his Lives with Theseus and Romulus, the legendary founders respectively of the Athenian state and Rome, and ends with Antony, Brutus and the other successors of Caesar. Together, his Lives form an enthralling history of Greco-Roman antiquity from the earliest times to the fall of the Roman Republic and the birth of the Empire. By focusing on the roles of the great men in history, Plutarch creates a narrative that is lively, personal and compelling. His gift is to seize on the details that illuminate character, and to sum up people and nations through vivid anecdote. He tells how the young Julius Caesar, kidnapped by pirates who asked for twenty talents as ransom, 'laughed at them for not understanding the value of their prisoner, and voluntarily engaged to give them fifty'. We also learn how the Spartans bathed their children in wine to strengthen them, how the great orator Demosthenes overcame a stammer by speaking with pebbles in his mouth, and how the legislator Lycurgus defused the anger of a mob by inviting one of them to stay with him in his home. Plutarch's portraits are balanced, and he is always ready to acknowledge his subjects' less admirable qualities, whether the 'drunkenness, debauchery and insolence' of Alcibiades, or Mark Antony's 'insane desire to be the first and greatest man in the world'. This insight into human nature makes the Lives a timeless and fascinating history, as readable and relevant today as when it was first written. 'Sometimes a matter of less moment, an expression or a jest, informs us better of their character and inclinations, than the most famous sieges, the greatest armaments, or the bloodiest battles' Life of Alexander ''He was always excessively pleased with his own praise, and continued to the very last to be passionately fond of glory; which often interfered with the prosecution of his wisest resolutions' Life of Cicero It is impossible to exaggerate the influence of Plutarch's Lives on our view of the ancient world. For centuries he was the main source of information about such figures as Alexander and Cleopatra. Shakespeare based the stories of his Roman plays almost entirely on the accounts in the Lives. Many passages in Antony and Cleopatra, most famously the description of Cleopatra on her barge, are taken almost word for word from Plutarch. Voltaire and Montaigne were ardent admirers, while the Founding Fathers of America drew on many examples from the Lives in their writings and letters. This new Folio Society edition uses the classic translation overseen by John Dryden. Each life is placed in chronological order, with the Greeks before the Romans, creating an enthralling narrative history of the ancient world. 'A Bible for heroes' RALPH WALDO EMERSON Keep on Reading- published: 13 Sep 2013
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Life Of Plutarch
A video project I made for an Ancient Greek course at the University of Wisconsin-Green Ba...
published: 05 Nov 2007
author: Scott Bartell
Life Of Plutarch
Life Of Plutarch
A video project I made for an Ancient Greek course at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. It's a video biography of the ancient Greek historian Plutarch.- published: 05 Nov 2007
- views: 2610
- author: Scott Bartell
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Book Review of "Selected Lives" by Plutarch
Book Review of "Selected Lives" by Plutarch
from:
"Plutarch Selected Lives and Essays"
Tr...
published: 03 Sep 2013
Book Review of "Selected Lives" by Plutarch
Book Review of "Selected Lives" by Plutarch
Book Review of "Selected Lives" by Plutarch from: "Plutarch Selected Lives and Essays" Trans from Greek by Louise Ropes Loomis Published for the Classics Club by Walter J. Black, Inc., Roslyn, N. Y., 1951 Review by Bill Schaeffer copyright(c) 2013 *** "Alexander" p.28 "27. On that journey at any rate, the assistance the god gave him in his difficulties was more impressive than the oracles which he received later, and the impression it created in tis way was what made men believe in the oracles..." "Then when the landmarks for the guides seemed confused and the troops were scattered and wandering, ignorant of their path, ravens appeared and took over the leadership of the march, flying swiftly before them as long as they followed, and waiting for them when they loitered and fell behind. Most amazing of all is Callisthenes' story, that by their cries at night the birds called back stragglers, screaming until they had brought them again into the line of march. "When then Alexander had crossed the desert and arrived at the temple, the prophet of Ammon greeted him in the name of the god, as though he were his father. Alexander asked whether any of his father's murderers had escaped him, to which the prophet answered that he must be careful how he spake, for his father was not a mortal."- published: 03 Sep 2013
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