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4 giorni fa · In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Pluto (Greek: Πλούτων, Ploutōn) was the ruler of the Greek underworld. The earlier name for the god was Hades, which became more common as the name of the underworld itself. Pluto represents a more positive concept of the god who presides over the afterlife.
2 giorni fa · Epistemology, ethics, history, metaphysics. Plutarch ( / ˈpluːtɑːrk /; Greek: Πλούταρχος, Ploútarchos; Koinē Greek: [ˈplúːtarkʰos]; c. AD 46 – after AD 119) [1] was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, [2] historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi.
6 giorni fa · Pluto is named for the god of the underworld in Roman mythology (the Greek equivalent is Hades). It is so distant that the Sun’s light, which travels about 300,000 km (186,000 miles) per second, takes more than five hours to reach it.
- In 2006 the International Astronomical Union (IAU) removed Pluto from the list of planets and classified it as a dwarf planet because of its small...
- Amateur American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh found Pluto in the constellation Gemini on February 18, 1930.
- Pluto’s mean distance from the Sun is about 5.9 billion km (3.7 billion miles or 39.5 astronomical units).
- Pluto's orbit is more elongated, or eccentric, than any of the planetary orbits and more inclined (at 17.1°) to the ecliptic. In traveling its ecce...
- Pluto possesses five known moons. Charon is by far the largest, being fully half the size of Pluto. Pluto’s other four moons—Hydra, Nix, Kerberos,...
27 mag 2024 · Plutarch (born 46 ce, Chaeronea, Boeotia [Greece]—died after 119 ce) was a biographer and author whose works strongly influenced the evolution of the essay, the biography, and historical writing in Europe from the 16th to the 19th century.
- Plutarch was a Greek biographer and author born in the 1st century CE whose works strongly influenced the evolution of the essay, the biography, an...
- Plutarch’s popularity rests primarily on his Parallel Lives, biographies of Greek and Roman heroes in pairs, chosen for their similarity of charact...
- Plutarch was a prolific writer who produced over 200 works, not all of which survived antiquity. Besides the Parallel Lives, the Moralia (or Ethica...
- Plutarch held the chief magistracy and other municipal posts in Chaeronea and directed a school there with a focus on philosophy, especially ethics...
- Plutarch was the son of Aristobulus, himself a biographer and philosopher. Plutarch was married to a woman named Timoxena, and they had at least fi...
4 giorni fa · Pluto is a dwarf planet that lies in the Kuiper [KI-per] Belt. It's an area full of icy bodies and other dwarf planets at the edge of our solar system. Pluto is known as the "King of the Kuiper Belt" – and it's the largest object in the region, even though another object similar in size, called Eris, has a slightly higher mass. One ...
28 mag 2024 · In 2006, astronomers ‘demoted’ Pluto from a major planet in the solar system to a dwarf planet. But was Pluto snubbed? Our experts answer.
