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...curred five centuries after his death, in the writings of [[Cicero]] and [[Plutarch]]. Instances of the Pythagorean theorem appear in Babylonian sources very e

...breasts of the rising generation." Students received the usual quota of [[Plutarch]], [[Shakespeare]], Swift, and Addison, as well as such Americans as Joel B

...but gradually made his way to the study of the great historians, such as [[Plutarch]] and some of the great moralists. He was influenced by his father’s Repu

Both [[Livy]] (in Latin, living in [[Augustus]]' time) and [[Plutarch]] (in Greek, a century later) described how Rome had developed its legislat [[Tacitus]], a contemporary of Plutarch, was not concerned with whether on an abstract level a form of government c

...http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/GreekScience/Students/Kristen/Plutarch.html ] Plutarch, De facie in orbe lunae , c. 6 “''Only do not, my good fellow, enter an a ...of Thessaly, [[Aglaonike]] is mentioned as a sorceress in the writings of Plutarch and [[Apollonius of Rhodes]]. Possibly the first recorded woman astronomer,

...characters. Some other writers called it ''Poseidonis'' after Poseidon. [[Plutarch]] mentions ''Saturnia'' or ''Ogygia'' about five days' sail to the west of

...Nicolaus Damascenus, ''Vita Caesaris'' 14, 16, 17, 32, 36, 37, 51 & 107; [[Plutarch|Mestrius Plutarchus]] ''Brutus'' 27.1, ''Cicero'' 43.6 & 44.1; Mestrius Plu

...ucing a new society in which both Greeks and barbarians would become, as [[Plutarch]] later put it, ‘one flock on a common pasture’ feeding under one law.

...roleum tar or oil to scare his enemies and, in about the first century AD, Plutarch refers to the petroleum found near Ecbatana (Kirkuk) in what is now Iraq. I

...stimated that child sacrifice was practiced for centuries in the region. [[Plutarch]] (ca. 46–120 [[Common Era|CE]]) mentions the practice, as do [[Tertullia