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Plutarch

Plutarch is the most famous biographer of the ancient world and the author of a famous collection now known as Plutarch's Lives. Plutarch's original title was Parallel Lives of Famous Greeks and…

Plutarch

(Encyclopedia) PlutarchPlutarchpl&oomacr;ˈtärk [key], a.d. 46?–c.a.d. 120, Greek essayist and biographer, b. Chaeronea, Boeotia. He traveled in Egypt and Italy, visited Rome (where he lectured on…

Coriolanus

(Encyclopedia) Coriolanus (Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus)Coriolanuskôrˌēəlāˈnəs [key], Roman patrician. He is said to have derived his name from the capture of the Volscian city Corioli. According to…

Holland, Philemon

(Encyclopedia) Holland, Philemon, 1552–1637, English translator and scholar. Educated at Cambridge, he became director of the free school in Coventry, where he also practiced medicine. He was the…

Amyot, Jacques

(Encyclopedia) Amyot, JacquesAmyot, Jacqueszhäk ämyōˈ [key], 1513–93, French humanist, translator of Heliodorus' Aethiopica (1547), of Longus' Daphnis and Chloë (1559), and particularly of Plutarch's…

North, Sir Thomas

(Encyclopedia) North, Sir Thomas, 1535?–1601?, English translator. He is famous for his translation of Plutarch, entitled Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (1579), which he made from the French…

Chaeronea

(Encyclopedia) ChaeroneaChaeroneakĕrənēˈə [key], ancient town of Boeotia, Greece, in the Cephissus (now Kifisós) River valley and NW of Thebes. There the Athenians and Thebans were defeated (338 b.c…

Calpurnia

(Encyclopedia) CalpurniaCalpurniakălpûrˈnēə [key], d. after 44 b.c., Roman matron. The daughter of Lucius Calpurnicus Piso Caesoninus (see under Piso, family), she was married to Julius Caesar in 59…

Paullus, Aemilius

(Encyclopedia) Paullus, Aemilius (Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus)Paullus, Aemiliusēmĭlˈēəs [key], c.229–160 b.c., Roman general. He was curule aedile (193 b.c.), praetor (191), and consul (182…

anecdote

(Encyclopedia) anecdoteanecdoteănˈĭkdōtˌ [key], brief narrative of a particular incident. An anecdote differs from a short story in that it is unified in time and space, is uncomplicated, and deals…