Plutarch

A mong the progression of gods and goddesses, various ones emerge into history with an overshadowing impact, melting Satan’s evil presence into a variety of names and forms. In antiquity, along with Pan, the god Baal steadily advances and becomes one of Satan’s foremost prized advocates; appearing to make their worship indispensable. Baal worship became profuse throughout the ancient Middle East. Prevalently, Baal often acquired other god’s identity, such as the horned Molech, well-known for…

Cleopatra VII has been a famous figure throughout history. From her involvement with Julius Caesar and her famous love affair with Marc Antony, Cleopatra has intrigues historians and the world for her beauty, political involvement with Rome, and her intellect and how she was able to keep Egypt from becoming a part of Rome until her death. Cleopatra was the last ruler of Egypt and succeeded in keeping it from Roman control while she was still alive due to her utilizing Roman love interests to…

Herodotus in the The Histories Book V, claims,“There is nothing in the whole world so unjust, nothing so bloody, as a tyranny” Greece, in 500 BC was under the rule of one such tyrant, Pisistratus. In order to stay in power, tyrants of ancient Greece created a prosperous society which would please its citizens. Tyrants created a prosperous society by establishing worldly order, redistributing power to the middle class and creating a unified society. To start, tyrants in Athens created relations…

in his article “Shakespeare’s Brutus: A Man Torn By Conflicting Values” Brutus tries to separate the ugliness of murder from ideals such as patriotism. “This isolation of Brutus from the central fact of violent murder is almost totally complete in Plutarch” (Simmons 62). Simmons goes on to say that Shakespeare thought that this separation could not have been possible, which is where the internal conflict comes in. In order to present the internal conflict of his characters, Shakespeare uses a…

Cleopatra’s family ruled Egypt for more than 100 years before she was born August 69 B.C. Cleopatra was a queen of Egypt but she was not Egyptian. She was the last of the Macedonian Greek dynasty that ruled Egypt from the time of Alexander the Great's death in 323 BCE to about 30 BCE. She was a talented and resourceful individual of great charm but ruthless when she felt she had to be. Cleopatra was the only one of her family that learned to speak the Egyptian (Coptic) language. She knew a half…

and briefly changed his seal from a sphinx to Alexander's profile. There has also been some speculation that Julius Caesar wept by a statue of Alexander, embarrassed that the Macedonian had accomplished so much more at a younger age than he had. Plutarch, a Greek who became a Roman who lived four hundred years after Alexander, wrote his Life of Alexander as one of a series of 'Parallel Lives', comparing ancient Greeks with 'modern' Romans (Alexander was compared to Julius…

most powerful religious official in Rome was the pontifex maximus. He was the leader of the collegium pontificum [college of priests], which determined the dates of festivals and kept records of when the main religious events were held each year. Plutarch is renowned for stating the duties of the pontifex maximus, “he not only prescribed rules for public ceremony, but regulated the sacrifices of private persons…and giving information to every one of what was requisite for purposes of worship or…

were sufficient enough to produce clothing. Athenian women wove clothes for both themselves and the okios and was considered one of the most productive things a woman could do, a contrast to the Spartan view of motherhood being a vital function. Plutarch describes a saying with an Ionian woman being proudest of her weaving while a Spartan woman was proud of her well-raised sons.…

A dystopia is an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or dreadful. It is typically a society that is limited to certain resources. In a dystopia, a society is usually controlled by the government and leaves no power to the people. Two examples of dystopias would be the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins. Both of these novels are based on dystopias, during different time periods. They have an abundance of components in common, while…

“There is nothing impossible to him who will try.” Alexander the Great (Great). Alexander the Great was an ancient Greek conqueror who created one of the largest empires known to mankind. Taking a stand in history is when a person, group of people, or an idea attempts to overcome a problem regardless of opposition. A prime example of someone who took a stand is Alexander the Great. Alexander the Great took a stand in history when he conquered the Persian Empire, spreading Greek culture affecting…