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CHARACTER vs NOTORIETY. Why True Leaders Appear Late:Tacitus & Plutarch on Character and Display

Rumble 23 Dec 2025
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Sabines: The Spartan Tribe That Shaped the Early Romans

Greek Reporter 03 Dec 2025
Plutarch wrote, “And at all events, Numa was of Sabine descent, and the Sabines will have it that they were colonists from Lacedaemon.” ... Plutarch emphasizes that their religious practices were closely intertwined with political life.
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Koalemos: The Unknown Greek God of Stupidity

Greek Reporter 30 Nov 2025
Koalemos, the ancient Greek god of stupidity. Credit. Youtube still. There are many ancient Greek gods in mythology, representing all aspects of human life and various concepts ... In Plutarch’s Life of Cimon, Koalemos appears yet again. ... ....
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece

Greek Reporter 27 Nov 2025
According to Plutarch, the main literary source on Philopoemen, “a certain Roman, in praising him, called him the last of the Greeks,​ implying that Greece produced no great man after him, nor one worthy of her.” Early years.
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Pythagoras: The Truth Behind the “First Vegan” Greek Philosopher

Greek Reporter 06 Nov 2025
Credit ... Credit ... Plutarch the philosopher, in his Symposiacs, notes that the older followers of Pythagoras avoided consuming living creatures, especially fish, but later generations permitted moderate consumption of flesh during rituals offered to Zeus.
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The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping’s Jesse Plemons on Plutarch Recast

Coming Soon 22 Oct 2025
Jesse Plemons recently opened up about playing the role of Plutarch Heavensbee in The Hunger Games ... Jesse Plemons on replacing Philip Seymour Hoffman as Plutarch in new Hunger Games movie ... Philip Seymour Hoffman played Plutarch in The Hunger Games.
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Why Spartan Men Had Long Hair

Greek Reporter 18 Oct 2025
Ancient Greek historian, biographer, and philosopher Plutarch serves as a rich source regarding males’ hairstyles in ancient Greece.
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Did Lycurgus of Sparta Really Found the Olympic Games?

Greek Reporter 14 Oct 2025
The surviving source for this tradition is Plutarch, a Greek philosopher of the first century CE. According to Plutarch, Aristotle believed that Lycurgus was associated with the first Olympic Games. In the words of Plutarch..
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The Art of Truffle Hunting: Reviving Greece’s Ancient Delicacy

Greek Reporter 12 Oct 2025
Plutarch, Pliny, Cicero, Dioscorides, Theophrastus, Galen, and Athenaeus often mentioned the hydnon (plural hydna) in their writings ... In classical times, Plutarch, Cicero, and Dioscorides, in trying to ...
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Did Ancient Romans Have Pets?

Roman Empire Times 07 Oct 2025
Plutarch described a widow constantly cradling her lapdog.“Some women, when they are widowed, keep little dogs or monkeys for company, taking them in their arms, fondling them, and always carrying them about.
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The Amazons in Roman Thought: From Fierce Foes to Fascinating Myths

Roman Empire Times 29 Sep 2025
On the one hand, literary texts—by authors such as Virgil, Strabo, Pliny the Elder, Curtius, Plutarch, Arrian, and Pausanias—present Amazons in ways that celebrate the greatness of Rome and reinforce the emperor’s image.
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The Elderly in Ancient Rome: Voices of Respect and Fear

Roman Empire Times 27 Sep 2025
Yet for many Romans, growing old was a condition both respected and feared.How the Ancient World Saw Its Elders ... R ... Appian claimed he died in his fifty-sixth year, while Plutarch wrote he was fifty-six, when by our reckoning he was fifty-five ... Credits.
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Strabo: Mapping the World of Rome

Roman Empire Times 27 Sep 2025
Strabo had walked Roman roads, sailed Roman seas, and listened to stories carried by merchants and soldiers ... His History, written before the Geography, is preserved only in nineteen fragments, cited by Josephus, Plutarch, and Tertullian ... Credits ... ....
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Inside Roman Society: How Ordinary Life Shaped an Extraordinary Empire (Part 2)

Roman Empire Times 25 Sep 2025
Plutarch condemned them as ruinous bribery.“Those falsely named and falsely attested honours that come from giving theatrical shows, handouts, or gladiatorial games, are like the flatteries of ...
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Inside Roman Society: How Ordinary Life Shaped an Extraordinary Empire (Part 1)

Roman Empire Times 23 Sep 2025
Plutarch tells of Aelius Tubero, whose family of sixteen shared a single hearth, embodying frugality and solidarity ... Plutarch, in his Life of Crassus, accused the magnate of profiting from disaster, ...

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