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 ...

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, ...

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), ...

Jesse Plemons to Play Plutarch Heavensbee in ‘Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping’ The film adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ best-selling prequel will be released on Nov. 20, 2026 ...

Plutarch is far from the only member of the eventual rebellion to help Haymitch along in Sunrise on the Reaping. Since District 12 had no living mentors at the time, two victors from other ...

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 ...

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 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.

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