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Plutarch

Historians May 18, 2019

Plutarch : biography c. 46 - 127 Plutarch ( Greek: , Ploútarkhos, ) then named, on his becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius...

Plutarch

Historians May 18, 2019

Plutarch : biography c. 46 - 127 Lost works The Romans loved the Lives, and enough copies were written out over the centuries so that...

Plutarch

Historians May 18, 2019

Plutarch : biography c. 46 - 127 English translations Plutarch's Lives were translated into English, from Amyot's version, by Sir Thomas North in 1579. The...

Plutarch

Historians May 18, 2019

Plutarch : biography c. 46 - 127 Early life Plutarch was born to a prominent family in the small town of Chaeronea about twenty...

Plutarch

Historians May 18, 2019

Plutarch : biography c. 46 - 127 In opposition to Stoic materialism and Epicurean "atheism" he cherished a pure idea of God that was more...

Plutarch

Historians May 18, 2019

Plutarch : biography c. 46 - 127 Questions Book IV of the Moralia contains the Roman and Greek Questions. The customs of Romans and Greeks...

Plutarch

Historians May 18, 2019

Plutarch : biography c. 46 - 127 Life of Caesar Together with Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars this Life is the main account of Julius Caesar's...

Pierre de Coubertin

Historians May 18, 2019

Pierre de Coubertin : biography 01 January 1863 - 02 September 1937 Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin ( 1 January 1863 –...

Pierre de Coubertin

Historians May 18, 2019

Pierre de Coubertin : biography 01 January 1863 - 02 September 1937 The Pierre de Coubertin medal (also known as the Coubertin medal or the...

Pierre de Coubertin

Historians May 18, 2019

Pierre de Coubertin : biography 01 January 1863 - 02 September 1937 Early life Pierre de Frédy was born in Paris on 1 January 1863...