PLUTARCH

Boeotia, approx. 45 - 120 B.C.

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The greatest of the ancient Greek scribes. He was born in Chaeronia, Boeotia in 46 AD. and died there at 127. He studied philosophy in Athens. He traveled to Alexandria and Rome, where he stayed for a long time, and became associated with the Court of Trajan, to later become the teacher of the emperor Hadrian. When he returned to Greece, he obtained the offices of lord and priest of the Pythian Games. He wrote 85 works, of which the most important are "Parallel Lives" and his treatises entitled "Ethics". The first are biographies of Greek and Roman officials, written in an engaging and instructive style, valuable for the historical evidence they provide.

Works

PARALLEL LIVES
Solon - Poplikolas
Themistocles - Camillus
Theseus - Romylus
Lykourgos - Noumas
Pericles - Phavius Maximus
Gaius Markius - Alceviades
Aristides - Marcus Caton
Pelopidas - Marcellus
Ages, Cleomenes - Tiberius, Gaius Grachus
Aemilus - Timoleon
Dion - Bruto
Kimon- Leykollus
Pyrrus - Marius
Philopoimin - Titus Flamininus
Nictas - Krassus
Phocion - Caton
Alexander - Ceasar
Demosthenes - Cicero
Lyssander - Syllas
Agesilaus - Pompeus
Sertorius - Eymenes
Demetrius - Antonius
Aratus - Artaxerxes
Galvas - Otto
ETHICS
On discipline of children
How to listen to new poems
On listening
How to tell a flatterer from a friend
How to cultivate virtue
How to benefit from enemies
On many friendships
On luck
On virtue and evil
To Appolonian
Healthy professions
Symposium of the seven sages
On superstition
Quotes of kings and generals
Spartan quotes
The old professions of Spartans
Quotes of Lacaens
Virtues of women
Parallel stories Greek and Roman
On the Roman luck
Roman causes
Greek causes
On the luck of Alexander A,B
Are Athenians glorified by war or by wisdom
On Isis and Osiris
On the ei of Delphi
Virtue is teachable
On moral virtue
On happy feeling
On love of brother
Malice is enough to lead to bad luck
On doing many things
On love of wealth
On jealously and hatred
On predestination
On Socrates' deamon
On flight
To woman
Of symposium
Erotic
On the best leader being the philosopher
To uneducated leader
On monarchy and democracy and oligarchy
Lifes of ten orators
On those who like natural philosophers
Natural causes
On meat eating A,B
Platonic issues
On the common women to Stoics
To Collotes
On music