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       Plutarch

      The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch

      Being Parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, Edited for Boys and Girls

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664654724

Table of Contents

       THESEUS

       ROMULUS

       COMPARISON OF THESEUS AND ROMULUS

       LYCURGUS

       SOLON

       THEMISTOCLES

       CAMILLUS

       PERICLES

       DEMOSTHENES

       CICERO

       COMPARISON OF DEMOSTHENES AND CICERO

       ALCIBAIDES

       CORIOLANUS

       COMPARISON OF ALCIBIADES AND CORIOLANUS

       ARISTIDES

       CIMON

       POMPEY

       THE ENGINES OF ARCHIMEDES FROM THE LIFE OF MARCELLUS

       DESCRIPTION OF CLEOPATRA FROM THE LIFE OF ANTONY

       ANECDOTES FROM THE LIFE OF AGESILAUS, KING OF SPARTA

       THE BROTHERS FROM THE LIFE OF TIMOLEON

       THE WOUND OF PHILOPOEMEN

       A ROMAN TRIUMPH FROM THE LIFE OF PAULUS AEMILIUS

       THE NOBLE CHARACTER OF CAIUS FABRICIUS FROM THE LIFE OF PYRRHUS

       FROM THE LIFE OF QUINTUS FABIUS MAXIMUS

       THE CRUELTY OF LUCIUS CORNELIUS SYLLA

       THE LUXURY OF LUCULLUS

       FROM THE LIFE OF SERTORIUS

       THE SCROLL-FROM THE LIFE OF LYSANDER

       THE CHARACTER OF MARCUS CATO

       THE SACRED THEBAN BAND FROM THE LIFE OF PELOPIDAS.

       FROM THE LIFE OF TITUS FLAMININUS, THE CONQUEROR OF PHILIP

       ALEXANDER THE GREAT

       THE DEATH OF CAESAR

THESEUS

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      As geographers crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, unapproachable bogs, Seythian ice, or frozen sea, so, in this great work of mine, in which I have compared the lives of the greatest men with one another, after passing through those periods which probable reasoning can reach to and real history find a footing in, I might very well say of those that are farther off, Beyond this there is nothing but prodigies and fictions; the only inhabitants are the poets and inventors of fables; there is no credit, or certainty any farther. Yet, after publishing an account of Lycurgus the lawgiver and Numa the king, I thought I might, not without reason, ascend as high as to Romulus, being brought by my history so near to his time. Considering therefore with myself

      Whom shall I set so great a man face to face?

       Or whom oppose? Who's equal to the place?

      (as Aeschylus expresses it), I found none so fit as he who peopled the beautiful and far-famed city of Athens, to be set in opposition with the father of the invincible and renowned city of Rome. 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. We shall beg that we may meet with candid readers, and such as will receive with indulgence the stories of antiquity.

      Theseus seemed to me to resemble Romulus in many particulars. Both of them had the repute of being sprung from the gods.

      Both warriors; that by all the world's allowed.

      Both of them united with strength of body an equal vigor of mind; and of the two most famous cities of the world, the one built in Rome, and the other made Athens be inhabited. Neither of them could avoid domestic misfortunes nor jealousy at home; but toward the close of their lives are both of them said to have incurred great odium with their countrymen, if, that is, we may take the stories least like poetry as our guide to truth.

      Theseus was the son of Aegeus and Aethra. His lineage, by his father's side, ascends as high as to Erechtheus and the first inhabitants of Attica. By his mother's side, he was descended of Pelops, who was the most powerful of all the kings of Peloponnesus.

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