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-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
oppose that order. As confirmation of this, among the several available versions of Eros’ mythical genealogy, we have a fragment by Alcaeus (327 Voigt), mentioned in Plutarch ( Amat. 765 E), which refers to his having been born from Iris and Zephyros: 2
this view, the tyrant Periander of the Aristotelian anecdote (i.e. the ostracizing body of people) is arrogating the privileges of the gods. 57 Also later authors such as Diodorus of Sicily and Plutarch assume that the desire to bring down men in power
Who protects children in the Roman religion? From whom?
Some reflections concerning Carna, Ino, and Thesan, in connection with Mater Matuta
Ovid and Plutarch, following Cicero. 37 Ino was the second wife of the Minyan king Athamas, the mother of Learchus and Melicertes, daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, 38
of the boundary marker between the Peloponnese and ‘Ionia.’ He is a hero attributed to a policy of promoting agro-pastoral activities. Notably, Plutarch specifies that Theseus was aware of the usefulness of Geomori and places the theft of his herds
. 90 At the same time, according to one of Plutarch's controversial passages, the ancient Roman law laid down by Romulus permitted divorce if the wife made copies of the keys without her husband's knowledge, which was interpreted as meaning that a
the content of memory, but it is an act. Giving an account of the latter, Plutarch reports that according to them, probably according to the later Stoics, memory is “the comprehension of a proposition (ἄξιωμα) in the past tense, whose present form we
’s Alexander Digression (9. 17–19): Counterfactuals and Apologetics . Journal of Roman Studies , 92 : 62 – 85 . Mossman , J.M. ( 1992 ). Plutarch, Pyrrhus, and Alexander. Plutarch and the Historical Tradition . New York . Naiden , F.S. ( 2019
terms of the treaty. All of these constituent elements appear in the Celtic Gaelic oaths. If Markale’s hypothesis could be expanded in a valid theory (that Arrian and Plutarch transmitted via their own Greek
until Claudius' reign to see them receive citizenship (undoubtedly including an ancestor of Dio), on the condition that they spoke Latin, 21 and for Nero's reign to see one or other enter the senate. Plutarch (who died in 125), himself a Greek from