Word: plutarch
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...reporter asked if she enjoyed reading as much as music. "Oh yes," said Eva. And did she have any favorites? "Why do people ask me questions like that? I like everything I read." But surely she must have some favorites. "Well," said Eva, her brow furrowed in agonized thought, "Plutarch." "He's an ancient writer," she added hastily...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). An appraisal of Plutarch's Lives by British Historian Arnold J. Toynbee, Journalist Max Lerner, Harvard's Boylston Professor Theodore Spencer...
Public scrutiny of the doings of politicians has been going on at least from the time of Plutarch, the Greek essayist-biographer, who wrote some 1,900 years ago: "Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say and do in public, but there is busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marriages, and every other serious or sportive action...
...Plutarch: Lives...
...contrived huge rock-throwing slings, long poles thrust from the city's walls to drop missiles on enemy heads, great cranes that hooked into the prows of the Roman ships and hoisted them into the air, "burning mirrors" with which (according to legend) he set the fleet afire. Plutarch reported that Archimedes so terrified the Romans that "if they did but see a little rope or a piece of wood from the city's walls . . . they turned their backs and fled." But they captured Syracuse...