Category Archives: Plutarch (Greek)

Babylonian and Persian wisdom: Various authors on reception and expulsion of Chaldeans, Magians, and other foreign experts at Rome (first century CE on)

Barbarians: Plutarch on the bad influence of barbarian slaves on Greek children (early second century CE)

Carthaginians: Plato, Aristotle, Polybios and others on their character and communal organization (fourth century BCE on)

Celts and Germans: Plutarch’s ethnographic digressions in the Lives (early second century CE)

Cilicians: Plutarch on foreign “pirates” threatening Roman ways (early-second century CE)

Egyptian and Persian wisdom: Plutarch on the “barbarian-lover” Herodotos (early second century CE)

Egyptian wisdom: Plutarch on wise Egyptian priests and on Isis and Osiris (early second century CE)

Ethiopians: Aristokreon on a people ruled by a dog (mid-third century BCE)

Guide to Plutarch of Chaironeia

Indian and Persian wisdom: Deinon of Kolophon, Cicero, and Plutarch on Alexander, the naked philosophers, and Kalanos (early second century CE)

Judeans, Syrians, Celts, Scythians and others: Plutarch on the “barbarian” origins of fearing the gods, or “superstition” (early second century CE)

Lelegians: Plutarch on Greek Trallians’ treatment of indigenous peoples (early second century CE)

Lycians: Menekrates of Xanthos and Polycharmos on Lycian origins and the practice of fish-divination (late fifth century BCE on)

Persian wisdom: Theopompos of Chios and Plutarch on Magians and Zoroaster (fourth century BCE and later)

Persians, Tyrrhenians and Lycians: Plutarch on brave women and effeminate men (early second century CE)

Pontic peoples: Phlyarchos on traits and customs of Thibians and Scythians (early second century BCE)

Romans: Livy, Pliny, Plutarch, and Dio on Roman human sacrifice of Gauls and Greeks (late first century BCE on)

Scythian wisdom: Curtius Rufus on the Scythian elder’s speech about Alexander the bandit (first century CE)

Scythian wisdom: Plutarch on Anacharsis at the dinner of the seven sages (early second century CE)