...Moses Hadas Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 THE RELIGION OE PLUTARCH* MOSES HADAS I WONDER whether people who spend their lives in Athens and for whom its glorious associations have become a part of daily ex­ istence can realize what an exciting privilege it is for a barbaros...

... to drama having richness and variety of parts, has brought recognition of Shakespeare s subtle artistry in transmuting Plutarch s Life of Marcus Antonius into Antony and Cleopatra. Analysis of Shakespeare s use of mirror scenes 2 or the umbrella speech, 3 for instance, has made clear that even...

... their crimes, and picture their follies. Plutarch, who wrote his Lives in the latter half of the first century, is a notable example. His repeated reference to the personal ap­ pearance of his subjects is by itself sufficient evidence that such comment was by no means out of harmony with the lit­ erary habits...

... it is not original with him, but comes, let us say, through a series of intermediate translations, from the Greek of Plutarch. There is a wonderful description in Shakespeare s Antony and Cleo­ patra of the Egyptian Queen as she first appeared to the hero: 3 238 The South Atlantic Quaeteelt When she first met Mark...

... recounted by Plutarch, Alcibiades IX. According to this writer, Alcibiades had a re­ markably fine dog, for which he paid seventy minas (more than $1,200). One of the marks of beauty of the dog was its wonderful tail. This in sheer wantonness Alcibiades cut off; and, when he was deservedly rebuked for his...

... to us by Plutarch is found in the manuscript, and we have good reasons to infer that we have here only the last part of a papyrus roll. To judge from the contents of the extant poem, perhaps as much as a half has been lost. We may assume then that the heir of the buried Greek divided the poem with him...

...Edwin Björkman ATLANTIS: PROTEAN AND IMMORTAL EDWIN BJORKMAN Let us hope that Fable may, in what shall follow, so submit to the purifying processes of Reason as to take the character of exact history. Plutarch: Theseus" SPEAKING OF a proposed road to recovery, Walter Lippmann some time ago...

... employs a large number of engineers requires that new engineers entering his employ undergo a strenuous course of reading. The first item on the required read­ ing list is Plutarch s Lives. They can come nearer learning how to think by reading Plutarch than by reading any other book I know, he declares...

..., that is, to the malice of Fortune. To Fielding, following Juvenal, Seneca, Plutarch, Boethius, and other classical moralists, Fortune, which is to say misfortune, doesn t really exist, although it may seem to. One reason Fortune seems to exist is that there is much malice in people. But the main cause of Fortune s...

... for college classes, with the edition by William T. Stafford of James s Daisy Miller: The Story, the Play, the Critics ($2.25). The American Plutarch, ed. Edward T. James, reprints eighteen sketches from the Dictionary of National Biography (Charles Scribner s Sons, New York, $2.50). To the bibliography...

... art, is singu­ larly unconcerned with portraying the individual lineaments of big men. The study of biography for its own sake was introduced by the Peripatetics, yet even Plutarch, who comes late in the tradition, is careful not to make any of his eminent worthies pre-eminent. The likeliest...

... Tranquillitate Animi. The Greeks invented the form, and the Romans popularized it; though some of the most celebrated specimens in either language are no longer extant. It is perhaps best known to modern readers through several of Seneca s Moral Essays, Plutarch s consolatory epistles, and the modified...

... Erskine, Speeches; Oliver Gold­ smith s prose; Johnson, The Adventurer, The Idler, The Rambler, Preface to Shapespeare, Lives of the Most Emi­ nent English Poets; Longinus, On the Sublime, translated by William Smith; Plutarch, Lives . . . , translated by Lang­ horne; Pope, Preface to Homer, Preface...

... consulted had he wished to refresh his memory. Without question, however, much of the correspondence here revealed points directly to this or that lexicon as definite source. On occasion, moreover, the correspondence is of genuine consequence. Thus both Shakespeare and Cooper, but not Plutarch, make...

... Company, Inc., [1955]. Pp. xiii, 537- No one sets about writing a biography without prayer and misgiving. For there are no settled methods, no generally accepted formulas, and every new attempt is a new problem: the treatment must fit the subject. But there are models, from Plutarch to Strachey, and a few...

..., of Horace, Persius, and Ovid, of Orpheus, Anacreon, and Pindar, of Aeschylus and Sophocles, of Plutarch, of Jamblichus and Porphyry, of the Roman agricultural writers, of the early naturalists, and finally of Herodotus and Strabo. The account is correlated with a running analysis of Thoreau s state of mind...

... ; Shakespeare s use of North s Plutarch and Holinshed s Chronicles. The fourth section gives us translations by various poets of ten Greek or Latin poems, of part of a canto of Dante, and part of a tale of Chaucer. Here the two, three, or four versions of the same poem are meant to remind us how subtle...

... support of a few close friends. And from her case, the evidence Miss Putnam sought is plain. Women can be literary artists of great dis­ tinction. Just as Plutarch was once considered an essential part of a young man s liberal education, so the lives of women who achieve beyond the ordinary should become...

..., Plutarch, and Lucian, studied Seneca, and wrote books for use in schools. The letters are, of course, but the slender by-product of this hercu­ lean activity. Writing came as second nature to Erasmus. Always a little lonely, feeling in Cambridge somewhat out of things, chronically dis­ satisfied with his...

... of the Gospels, and of the initial work on his epoch-making Greek text of the New Testament. Then, too, he expanded the Adagia, trans­ lated St. Basil, Plutarch, and Lucian, studied Seneca, and wrote books for use in schools. The letters are, of course, but the slender by-product of this hercu­ lean activity...