Plutarch, Caesar, chapter 49 - Perseus Digital Library
网页So Cleopatra, taking only Apollodorus the Sicilian from among her friends, embarked in a little skiff and landed at the palace when it was already getting dark; and as it was impossible to escape notice otherwise, she stretched herself at full length inside a bed-sack, while Apollodorus tied the bedsack up with a cord and carried it indoors to ...
Excerpt on Cleopatra from Plutarch's Life of Julius Caesar
网页Excerpt on Cleopatra from Plutarch's Life of Julius Caesar. Pompey. When he was come into Asia, to gratify Theopompus, the author of the collection of fables, he. enfranchised the Cnidians, and remitted one-third of their tribute to all the people of the province of Asia.
Plutarch, Antony, chapter 86 - Perseus Digital Library
网页Now, the statues of Antony were torn down, but those of Cleopatra were left standing, because Archibius, one of her friends, gave Caesar two thousand talents, in order that they might not suffer the same fate as Antony's.
Plutarch, Antony, chapter 27 - Perseus Digital Library
网页Read the original Greek text and English translation of Plutarch's biography of Mark Antony, focusing on his relationship with Cleopatra. Learn about his feasts, jests, languages and character in this chapter.
According to Plutarch, Cleopatra Introduced Herself To Julius …
网页2017年6月26日 · Plutarch gave one of the more vivid accounts about how Cleopatra was smuggled into Alexandria. He wrote that she and an attendant named Apollodorus were ferried into the royal quarter of Alexandria in a small boat, easily hidden among the merchant ships busily trading in the city.
Cleopatra and fake news: How Roman writers like Plutarch …
网页2017年10月20日 · The web page explores how ancient Roman writers like Plutarch created a mythic image of Cleopatra as a manipulative and immoral temptress to suit their political needs. It argues that the historic Cleopatra is hard to find in the salacious drama of Antony and Cleopatra, inspired by Plutarch.
Cleopatra - Classics - Oxford Bibliographies
网页2024年2月20日 · Plutarch. 1988. Life of Antony. Edited by C. B. R. Pelling. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press. The best edition of the most important ancient literary source on Cleopatra. Written a century after her death, the biography of Antonius provides the most detail about Cleopatra’s life and that of her children.
The Death of Cleopatra: Extract from Plutarch’s “Life of Antony”
网页2020年3月17日 · The Roman world was torn apart in the late 30s B.C. by its two most powerful figures, Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (later known as Augustus, but here referred to as Caesar), and Marcus Antonius (Antony), who was involved in a passionate love affair with Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt.
网页Plutarch's depiction of Cleopatra's death in his Life of Antony is influenced by Greek tragedy and aims to inspire pity and catharsis for a conquered Greek. The paper analyzes the use of tragic themes such as hamartia, peripeteia, anagnorisis, and desperation speech in Plutarch's work.
The Internet Classics Archive | Caesar by Plutarch
网页In the meantime Sylla's power being now on the decline, Caesar's friends advised him to return to Rome, but he went to Rhodes, and entered himself in the school of Apollonius, Molon's son, a famous rhetorician, one who had the reputation of a worthy man, and had Cicero for one of his scholars.