Fame: From the bronze age to Britney Oct 31, 2009
Clearly Payne isn't interested in fame to excess -- he would hardly have made it through Homer, Thucydides, Plutarch etc if he were. But plenty today are excessively in thrall to fame and the famous, and that surely is the rub. (The Age, Australia)
Did Thucydides Really Tell the Truth? Oct 20, 2009
A long-serving professor at Yale and a pre-eminent modern historian of fifth-century BC Greece, Kagan has mastered every source, from the contemporary comedies of Aristophanes and inscriptions that recorded treaties and tribute payments to the later biographies of Plutarch, that can confirm or qualify Thucydides' account. He mobilizes all of these resources to support what he presents as a revisionist approach to Thucydides. (Slate)
Main Street USA: Political Delusions Oct 13, 2009
Plutarch tells us that, back in the fifth-century B.C., when the citizens of Athens were voting on whether to ostracize -- i.e., throw out -- Aristides the Just, one sourpuss explained his emphatic yes vote: "I am tired of hearing him called 'the Just.'". I hesitate to introduce the comparison. (Townhall.com)
Get lost in an art book Aug 27, 2009
Art has been a human passion since cave-dwellers first began embellishing their walls and their tools and since Plutarch first called painting silent poetry. Art continues today to color our lives and remains a measure of our humanity. (Lihue Garden Island, HA)
Will, we hardly knew ye - and still don't Jun 21, 2009
The impact of the plague on London and its theater scene; English county and nationalist identities; the flowers, plants, and herbs of rural England - a favorite line of imagery in the plays - the curriculum of the grammar school, especially in Latin; Ovid, Plutarch, Seneca, Epicurus, Montaigne, and other authors whom Shakespeare studied or with whom his work can be compared; laws and court cases involving sex, marriage, adultery, and divorce; the earl of Essex s failed rebellion in early 1601... (Boston Globe)
Ultralight Backpacking Games for th... May 30, 2009
Followed by, Plutarch. See the direction this game can go. (Suite101.com)
The price and worth of a degree May 5, 2009
One of the many things I learned at the end of that classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Osiris the God of Egyptian Resurrec... Apr 17, 2009
According to Plutarch, writing around AD 120, Osiris will eventually rise again to govern Egypt. The Osiris legend is perhaps the oldest resurrection story of the ancient world. (Suite101.com)
Vestal Virgins in Roman Culture and... Mar 21, 2009
Norma Goodrich quotes Plutarch (X) as saying, no other sight makes everyone in Rome shudder as this one does; nor can any other day make people so downcast as this day can. Protecting Rome from Evil. (Suite101.com)
High-minded mining of Bob Dylan Mar 20, 2009
"Plutarch, is that his name?" Dylan said in a 1978 interview, hopelessly clouding the waters. They read Dylan, but academics wonder: Does Dylan read them. (Boston Globe)
Candidates to speak at forums Mar 14, 2009
Canright also believes that students need character studies and referenced Plutarch, a Roman historian. Plutarch was not concerned with history so much as the influence of character, good or bad, on the lives and destinies of men. (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
Why Chemical Warfare Is Ancient History Feb 16, 2009
According to the historian Plutarch, the Roman general Sertorius in 80 B.C. had his troops pile mounds of gypsum powder by the hillside hideaways of Spanish rebels. When kicked up by a strong northerly wind, the dust became a severe irritant, smoking the insurgents out of their caves. (Time.com)
