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15 March The Ides of March. A time to settle debts.
“On his way to the Theatre, Caesar passed the seer & joked "The Ides of March are come”, implying the prophecy had not been fulfilled.
To which the seer replied "Aye, Caesar; but not yet gone.”
(✒️Plutarch 🎨Camucci )

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2021-03-15

Mashed turnip is traditional on Burns Night, but 25/01 is Govert Flink's birthday too. He painted Plutarch's tale of Republican People's Tribune Curius Dentatus telling the Samnites who tried to bribe him that he preferred turnips to gold. "Turnips" in ancient Greek=gongulides.

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2021-01-25

“For her beauty, as we are told, was in itself not altogether incomparable, nor such as to strike those who saw her; but converse with her had an irresistible charm...”
Plutarch, Life of Anthony 27.2

Cleopatra’s design is now available on Redbubble! :
https://t.co/vbNw2m3QRf

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2021-01-24

Ancient Greek Plutarch writes:

“Harpocrates (Heru the Younger) was born about the Winter Solstice, unfinished and infant-like...”.

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2020-12-24

Not pictured: Plutarch’s Lives, On the Clock, Livy’s Roman History (early republic stuff), State & Revolution

Post the first four books that started you on your current intellectual journey, no matter how cringe https://t.co/vby1YxdYvN

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2020-12-22

If you're interested in a comparison between the 'drunken scene and the ancient literary source that inspired it, check out Lynn's new blog: https://t.co/nJo7gELjFk. Reading group guidelines https://t.co/NJk8CUWrss

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2020-07-09

Why have I never heard of Elisabetta Sirani, 17th-c. artist who painted Plutarch's little-known story of Theban Timoclea's revenge on her rapist, a captain in Alexander's army? She told him there was money at the bottom of her well, pushed him into it & blocked it with stones.

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2020-07-01

In Ancient Greece, the veganism was referred to as “abstinence from beings with a soul” since they believed that all animals have souls. Some of the earliest : Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, Plutarch, Hesiod, Thales, Diogenes & Heraclitus. 🌱

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2020-06-30

Work in Progress of a SFW commission I'm doing, depicting the two people that killed legendary general Pyrrhus of Epirus, according to Greco-Roman historian Plutarch

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2020-05-01

nightborne frost mage named Plutarch

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2020-01-07

"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.” - Plutarch

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2019-10-18

Giorgio di Giovanni's 'La Fuga di Clelia' c1525-30 shows the Roman legend recorded by Livy & Plutarch. Sent as hostages to Etruscan King Lars Porsena, Cloelia encouraged all to escape by swimming across the Tiber. In honor of her courage, all were freed. On view

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2019-06-18

Image No. 6 from Republican actor William Macready rabble-rouses as pro-plebeian Caius Gracchus in post-Peterloo food-riots tragedy based on Plutarch by anti-poverty agitator James Knowles. The script was brutally censored by the Lord Chamberlain

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2019-02-19

When politics are predictable and demoralising, let's remind ourselves how proper democratic heroes behave in a New Year Plutarch blog (mentioning and and ): https://t.co/WWuiZ2tert

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2019-01-01

"Justice will only be achieved when those who are not injured by a crime feel as indignant as those who are"
~Plutarch

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2018-10-01

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."
— Plutarch, On Listening to Lectures

Art by Ivan Skudnev.

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2018-09-30

“Whenever he was going to be seen by many people, he always wore his tunic girt up to his thigh... and a heavy cloak enveloped him” - Plutarch, Life of Antony

Request for to lure ppl to my new Twitter ;^)

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2018-06-03

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“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.” Plutarch

🎨 "The Sailboat and Man in a Rowboat", before 1890

👨‍🎨 James Gale Tyler
(Oswego, New York, 1855 - 1931) was an American marine and landscape painter.

Beauty of

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2018-01-30