Plutarch

Central Thesis The main focus of this work is to provide a better understanding of how sexism could shape literary work and its responses as well as critiques. Through two main definitions of Anthony and Cleopatra such as "the fall of a great general" and "transcendental love" (Fitz, 297), the author of the reading explains how several critics have written adequately different responses over the years to the Shakespeare version of the story. Most of the approaches to the play have been depicted…

Julius Caesar is notably one of the most famous people in history. He was a noble and intelligent man born into an aristocrat family who knew what his country needed and how to achieve it. He did various things throughout his life that left an impact on the people of ancient Rome into the present. The most prominent of Caesar’s clout was his influence on the foundation of the Roman empire and the social and political reforms he instituted during his dictatorship that helped to shape Rome into…

Pericles became the most influential politician and general in Athens from the late 450s until his death in c.430-29. He was from the prominent noble Alkmeonidae family which gave him status and privilege and he was closely involved at a young age, in the democratic reforms of Ephialtes (In which the power of the Areopagus was weakened and then transferred to the demos) Pericles had been the leader of the democratic faction of Athenian politics since 462 BCE and his leadership meant that Athens…

of the trilogy. The beginning of the book started off with Katniss standing in the ashes of her house in District 12. The Capitol’s firebombs obliterated the entire place after Katniss escaped the Hunger Games arena at the end of Catching Fire. Plutarch Heavensbee, the Head Game Maker for the Quarter Quell, wanted Katniss to be the Mockingjay (head of the rebellion). She denied at first but after seeing Peeta on television requesting a ceasefire, Katniss agrees to become the Mockingjay with the…

CONSCLUSION A skillful warrior can achieve his own invulnerability, but he can never bring about the enemy’s vulnerability. (Sun Tzu) This campaign exposed numerous operational, tactical and strategic mistakes that the Athenians made; which ultimately lead to them losing this war. One of the main reasons the Athenians failed, was because they did not have the right resources nor executed the right strategy; this was mainly due to lack of planning and a lack of willingness to adjust. Maybe if…

First off, I believe that Athens did not have the right resources and the right strategy due to lack of planning and a lack of willingness to adjust. Maybe if they had planned accordingly and made sure that they would be properly financed then it would not have been such a catastrophe disaster. The second reason I believe for the Athenian failure was the recall of Alcibiades. He was a man of his people and very charismatic. The only reason the Athenian people put up with Alcibiades behavior…

Archimedes was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, engineer and inventor. Archimedes was the first big mathematician, as well as consider the best mathematician of that era. Archimedes was born in the Greek city-state of Syracuse. His father, Phidias, was an astronomer. The fact that his father was an astronomer made him motivated to do all the inventions he did. He was really close to King Hieron and his son, Gelon. He worked for them, when he lived in Alexandria. He invented the sciences…

better the Roman people. Now that there is a little back-story of each of these men it is quite obvious of why Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great have greater representation than King Leonidas of Sparta and Cato the elder. Even though the Greek Plutarch wrote about all Caesar, Alexander, and Cato, and even though all four men were great leaders there is one main reason why Caesar and Alexander are better known, they were both conquerors. While all four men were great leaders Leonidas and…

there’s no memories or experiences with the ‘new’ body, so how can it truly be you? The parts that make up who we are cannot be changed- because the changed parts are no longer continuous. You would go on saying it’s you, but it’s not the original you (Plutarch, paragraph 3, quote) The bundle theory; An attempt to say that we don’t really need to answer the question “What is a person?” what we call a person is really just a bunch of mental states so in a sense, there are no ‘persons’. This…

William Shakespeare was a man of art. He had the power of putting words in such ways that it lead to feeling the character 's pain or joy. He is the reason why our vocabulary today is so big. William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564. He was the third of the eight children in his family. However, despite his future, he was not born into nobility nor wealth and grew up far from the cultural ways of London. Though he did not go to a university due to his father’s financial problems, he…