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Idea of Communication . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Plutarch ( 1996 ): Essay on the Life and Poetry of Homer . In: Keaney , J. J. – Lamberton , R. (eds and trans). Atlanta : Scholars Press
Aeneas takes of exile is similar to the one later recommended by Plutarch in his work, On Exile . According to Plutarch exile is “a removal from what is thought to be our fatherland. By nature, there is no such thing as a fatherland.” 61 He mocks the
Alexandria, Eusebius of Caesarea quotes Plutarch, who in turn quotes Callimachus, who claims that in ancient times the inhabitants of Samos had erected a wooden statue of Hera, which was not “the well-polished work of Scelmis (Σκέλμις), but in accordance with
human sacrifice, even when discussing the events of 216 BC and 114/13 BC. Livy, Valerius Maximus, Frontinus, Plutarch, Florus, Aurelius Victor, and others extolled heroes who sacrificed their lives for Rome and condemn foreign peoples for
son of the tyrant Peisistratos, that led to the establishment of the first Athenian cult devoted to the god Eros. Athenaeus tells us how Kharmos set up an altar to Eros in the Academy, 57 and his story is supported by Pausanias and Plutarch. 58 And it
ward off the very charge made against his grandfather (and many others). It can be useful to integrate the rhetorical perspective of this source. In fact, the same episode is witnessed in more detail by Plutarch's Gaius Gracchus , 39 which reports all
: Dionysos. Histoire du culte de Bacchus . Paris 1951 [repr. 1978] Jiménez San Cristóbal , A. I. in press 1: Dionysus Omestes : from Alcaeus to Plutarch. Jiménez San Cristóbal , A. I. in press 2: Fiestas dionisíacas en Lesbos. In Jiménez San
the oracle. 5 According to Plutarch, Jupiter ordered Numa to sacrifice human living heads, but the king substituted for them onions' heads and live fishes. Dionysius of Halicarnassus 6
unlike other Greek authors of the period (Plutarch, Dionysius of Halicarnassus), Dio does not use the compound παναγής understood as a superlative form of ἅγιος, as a means of translating sacrosanctus. It would seem that all these authors had been
-working animals possessing a social sense. 16 Cleanthes, a Stoic philosopher, witnessed the peaceful exchange of a dead ant for a bug between two ant colonies, and Plutarch refers to – in his opinion – the commonly-known sight of
