Plutarch

Julius Caesar manipulated and bribed his way to gaining political power, specifically the consul of Rome by 59 BC, by becoming popular among the people. He was named governor of Gaul and became a threat to the Senate and Pompey who had already held power in Rome. Caesar became an enemy of the state and made an act of war by deciding to cross the Rubicon river confronting Pompey, a turning point that was the start of a civil war. The sources Suetonius’ “The Deified Julius Caesar” in Lives of the…

Mithridate War. We can read from Plutarch that there were rumors in Rome that Pompey may march his army on the city and enforce his Dictatorship over the Rome, so many of the elite Romans who was not in a good standing with Pompey run away…

lines that Plutarch speaks, and even they are not very concise. He mentions that he may have volunteered to be Gamesmaker to make the games significant; and that it may also have been because of her. After knowing the outcome, a case could be made that there is a much deeper meaning behind this, but it is very weak in comparison to the book. In the book, there is some slight chitchat between the two, but the very important part of the scene, that the movie leaves out, is the part where Plutarch…

Shakespeare's plays and poems were written during the English Renaissance; he wrote alongside other remarkable writers such as Sir Philip Sidney, John Milton, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe and many others. Shakespeare has remained a preeminent figure who wrote 37 plays and 150 sonnets with some of his famous tragedies including Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, and Othello. Each generation creates their own interpretation regarding Shakespeare’s work. All nations with theatrical conventions can…

lecture. However, many of Caesar’s activities are described and framed by Plutarch as being virtuous. Also there are a few inconsistencies and exclusions in the information presented in lecture and in the book. Caesar’s policies and military successes led to the creation and rise of a very powerful and relatively prosperous empire. He became a respected…

Six girls, around the age of six and ten, were selected and trained. Plutarch describes this training process, writing, “A period of thirty years chastity was laid down for the sacred virgins by the king: in the first ten years they learn their duties; in the second they carry out what they have learnt; in the third they,…

greatness of Greek and Roman men, and does not bother to mention any achievements of women, so he is potentially gender-biased. His Greek origin and Roman citizenship put him in a unique situation in which he has a mutual respect for both. Because of Plutarch being born in Greece and remaining in Greece despite his Roman citizenship suggests his pride for his home country is stronger but it doesn’t that pride doesn’t overshadow his writing of historical people and…

Although Plutarch is often uncritically enthusiastic about Spartan institutions, his work is valuable because it is frequently based on earlier sources that are now lost. Lycurgus is credited with having obtained the original Spartan constitutions from the oracle of Apollo at Delphi in the form of the Great Rhetra. All institutions and its mechanisms are ascribed to Lycurgus, including the Spartan agoge, syssitia, dietary laws and burial customs. However, while Plutarch 's Spartan Lives provide…

Caesar’s close friend Mark Antony. In the Life of Antony, Plutarch states that Antony’s wife Fulvia “wanted to rule ruler and command a commander” and that “Cleopatra owed Fulvia the fee for teaching Antony to submit to a woman” (Plutarch, 10) Plutarch also reveal that Antony “was incapable of imagining that people who were so candid when making a joke were really concerned to flatter him, and so he was easily caught by their compliments” (Plutarch, 24) Unfortunately, these statements are…

to better suit their need in order to survive. Therefore it is important for individuals with in that society to adapt to those changes if they hope to survive. Sophism play a major role in the transformation of Athens. Author such as Aristotle, Plutarch, Thucydides and Plato capture and identify how the nature of sophism effect athen. The idea of sophism became more popular after Cleisthenes decide to make some changes in the Athens constitution. When solon original created the Athens…