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Philip occasionally got drunk. Plutarch tells us of a scene at Philip's second-marriage feast when Attalus, the father of the bride, betrayed the general hostility to Olympias and Epirus by saying "he hoped there would be a child by the marriage to give them a truly Macedonian heir." Whereupon young Alexander rose and threw his cup of wine at Attalus . . . "What then am I?" Philip stood up and drew his sword, but stumbled and fell. And fiery Alexander...
...like Plutarch, foresee the end of a civilization. Indeed, he expressed an unwillingness to prophesy, lacking the advantage of writing two hundred years after the event, as Plutarch did; he merely said that he hoped that a scientific consideration of the factors that influence races might help, at least, in obtaining a "mutual comprehension of the younger America and the Old Europe...
...infinite exasperation of his architects and engineers, he commanded that the original plans be abandoned, that new be drawn and executed for the island. "Homer," remarked the Emperor Alexander smugly, was a "very good architect, besides his other excellencies." There is more to the story, very dryly told by Plutarch. This morning at eleven Professor Jackson will lecture on Homer from a point of view somewhat more aesthetic than that of the militarist, Alexander...
...CREELFUL OF FISHING STORIES ? Henry van Dyke ? Scribner ($2.50 ). Fish-stories from Plutarch to the present, edited by a lucky patriarch...
...Volume 11, Plutarch's Morals, edited by Goodwin, "The Banquet of the Seven Wise...