Description:Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Apollonius of Tyana, Plutarch, Epictetus, Seneca the Younger, Gaius Musonius Rufus, Wang Chong, Nicolaus of Damascus, Dio Chrysostom, Lucius Annaeus Cornutus, Nicomachus, Agrippa the Skeptic, Publius Clodius Thrasea Paetus, Arius Didymus, Demetrius the Cynic, Aetius, Yang Xiong, Damis, Sotion, Euphrates the Stoic, Huan Tan, Chaeremon of Alexandria, Alexander of Aegae, Aristocles of Messene, Ammonius of Athens, Attalus, Onasander, Paconius Agrippinus, Moderatus of Gades, Alexicrates, Publius Egnatius Celer, Aristo of Alexandria. Excerpt: Plutarch (Ancient Greek:, Ploutarkhos, Ancient Greek: ) then named, on his becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus ( ), c. 46 - 120 AD, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia. He was born to a prominent family in Chaeronea, Boeotia, a town about twenty miles east of Delphi. Ruins of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, where Plutarch served as one of the priests responsible for interpreting the predictions of the oracle.Plutarch was born in 46 AD in the small town of Chaeronea, in the Greek region known as Boeotia. His family was wealthy. The name of Plutarch's father has not been preserved, but it was probably Nikarchus, from the common habit of Greek families to repeat a name in alternate generations. The name of Plutarch's grandfather was Lamprias, as he attested in Moralia and in his Life of Antony. His brothers, Timon and Lamprias, are frequently mentioned in his essays and dialogues, where Timon is spoken of in the most affectionate terms. Rualdus, in his 1624 work Life of Plutarchus, recovered the name of Plutarch's wife, Timoxena, from internal evidence afforded by his writings. A letter is still extant, addressed by Plutarch to his wife, bidding her not give way...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with 1st-Century Philosophers: Apollonius of Tyana, Plutarch, Epictetus, Seneca the Younger, Gaius Musonius Rufus, Wang Chong, Nicolaus of Damascus. To get started finding 1st-Century Philosophers: Apollonius of Tyana, Plutarch, Epictetus, Seneca the Younger, Gaius Musonius Rufus, Wang Chong, Nicolaus of Damascus, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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1st-Century Philosophers: Apollonius of Tyana, Plutarch, Epictetus, Seneca the Younger, Gaius Musonius Rufus, Wang Chong, Nicolaus of Damascus
Description: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Apollonius of Tyana, Plutarch, Epictetus, Seneca the Younger, Gaius Musonius Rufus, Wang Chong, Nicolaus of Damascus, Dio Chrysostom, Lucius Annaeus Cornutus, Nicomachus, Agrippa the Skeptic, Publius Clodius Thrasea Paetus, Arius Didymus, Demetrius the Cynic, Aetius, Yang Xiong, Damis, Sotion, Euphrates the Stoic, Huan Tan, Chaeremon of Alexandria, Alexander of Aegae, Aristocles of Messene, Ammonius of Athens, Attalus, Onasander, Paconius Agrippinus, Moderatus of Gades, Alexicrates, Publius Egnatius Celer, Aristo of Alexandria. Excerpt: Plutarch (Ancient Greek:, Ploutarkhos, Ancient Greek: ) then named, on his becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus ( ), c. 46 - 120 AD, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia. He was born to a prominent family in Chaeronea, Boeotia, a town about twenty miles east of Delphi. Ruins of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, where Plutarch served as one of the priests responsible for interpreting the predictions of the oracle.Plutarch was born in 46 AD in the small town of Chaeronea, in the Greek region known as Boeotia. His family was wealthy. The name of Plutarch's father has not been preserved, but it was probably Nikarchus, from the common habit of Greek families to repeat a name in alternate generations. The name of Plutarch's grandfather was Lamprias, as he attested in Moralia and in his Life of Antony. His brothers, Timon and Lamprias, are frequently mentioned in his essays and dialogues, where Timon is spoken of in the most affectionate terms. Rualdus, in his 1624 work Life of Plutarchus, recovered the name of Plutarch's wife, Timoxena, from internal evidence afforded by his writings. A letter is still extant, addressed by Plutarch to his wife, bidding her not give way...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with 1st-Century Philosophers: Apollonius of Tyana, Plutarch, Epictetus, Seneca the Younger, Gaius Musonius Rufus, Wang Chong, Nicolaus of Damascus. To get started finding 1st-Century Philosophers: Apollonius of Tyana, Plutarch, Epictetus, Seneca the Younger, Gaius Musonius Rufus, Wang Chong, Nicolaus of Damascus, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.