Plutarch, better than any other ancient writer, affords the means of estimating the motives, the principles, the objects, of the men of the old time. We see in his pages what they were; ...

Plutarch gives readers a little follow-up moment, here in Pamela Mensch’s translation: When Cato tried to argue against these measures, Caesar had him led off to prison, ...

There’s a better book for today’s times: Plutarch’s “Lives.” “They just don’t come any better than old Plutarch,” President Harry Truman told biographer Merle Miller after he’d ...

On Plutarch as a moralist and historian. Literary fashion is a mysterious thing. Why is it that Sir Walter Scott, for example, whom generations of readers found absolutely spellbinding, is unread and, ...

Plutarch adds judiciously: "This was wrongfully reported of him." Plutarch's voice is decent, tolerant, knowing—the voice of a grown-up. In his life of Cleomenes (III), ...

Plutarch cannot get away from his fixed belief in the absolute unity of God, and with God's unity, as we have already seen, His eternity and immutability are involved.

I t's absolutely impossible to forget the mark Philip Seymour Hoffman left on The Hunger Games movies when he played Plutarch Heavensbee. He brought so much to the role of Head Gamemaker for the ...

From Plutarch's Sayings of Kings and Commanders (Frank Cole Babbitt trans.); Antigonus was one of Alexander the Great's successors: When Marsyas his ...

Oscar nominee Jesse Plemons has been cast as Plutarch Heavensbee in Lionsgate's "The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping," the studio announced on Friday. A future Head Gamemaker and rebellion ...