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4 giorni fa · Part of Plutarch's Parallel Lives, Life of Lycurgus, is a collection of anecdotes on the Spartan law-giver, Lycurgus, that provides valuable information about the laws and customs of the Greek city-state. This excerpt concerns laws related to the education of women and marriage.
5 giorni fa · Both from watching HBO’s Rome, and from reading my daughter’s Percy Jackson series, I have been on a bit of a Roman history kick, and I have started to read Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans.
5 giorni fa · They were designed to encourage mutual respect between Greeks and Romans and to provide model patterns of behaviour by exhibiting noble deeds and characters. What did Plutarch write? Plutarch was a prolific writer who produced over 200 works, not all of which survived antiquity.
3 giorni fa · The historical period of ancient Greece is unique in world history as the first period attested directly in comprehensive, narrative historiography, while earlier ancient history or protohistory is known from much more fragmentary documents such as annals, king lists, and pragmatic epigraphy .
3 giorni fa · In writing his historical plays, he drew largely from Sir Thomas North’s translation of Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans for the Roman plays and the chronicles of Edward Hall and Holinshed for the plays based upon English history.
3 giorni fa · Neoclassicism, also spelled Neo-classicism, emerged as a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity.
2 giorni fa · Constantine I [g] (27 February c. 272 – 22 May 337), also known as Constantine the Great, was a Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337 and the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity.
