Tag: Plutarch
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November 4, 2022 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. For the October Quarterly Discussion, we read Plutarch’s “Coriolanus” and a speech by David McCullough titled “Knowing History and Knowing Who We Are.” I was not really sure if this combination would work because of the great differences between the two pieces. Plutarch’s …
July 3, 2020 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. The authors of the Federalist Papers often cite Plutarch’s Parallel Lives. I, too, am amazed in Plutarch’s broad, holistic analysis of ancient peoples and places. When I first read Plutarch’s works, their current applicability surprised me. I am no longer surprised by this. …
October 27, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. In most cases, letter writing became fashionable only after the establishment of a postal service. However, state business has been conducted via the written letter since the beginning of formal governments. Our most recent Quarterly Discussion focused on six different letters from the …
July 28, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “what other end or period is there of all the wars and dangers which hapless princes run into, whose misery and folly it is, not merely that they make luxury and pleasure, instead of virtue and excellence, the object of their lives, but …
July 21, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Last week we introduced a couple of less than mainstream calendars . This week, we want to move back into a look at the contemporary calendar, as based upon the Roman calendar. Julius Caesar, of course, attended to the discrepancies in the calendar. …
May 19, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s review. (This was originally published in the HMU: Dialogues May 2017 newsletter. You can find the rest of the newsletter at hmu.edu .) Plutarch. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Roman; The Dryden Translation. Throughout the Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans, Plutarch …
May 12, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Communication necessarily involves empathy. To listen requires a silencing of the self. However, to understand requires tools contained within the self. This opens up a paradox: how to listen and translate at the same time. Non-verbal communication often enhances face-to-face interactions. Literature gives …
March 10, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Plutarch’s Parallel Lives gives the reader a great amount of information about language. It is an invaluable resource when looking at language changes over a period of time. More importantly, Plutarch explains that language is affected both by cultural change, but also demonstrates …
February 10, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Recently, I was having a discussion about Plutarch and I found myself really interested in the history behind place names. I give Plutarch much credit for preserving the stories and details behind stories that certainly would have been lost otherwise. We often take …
January 6, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. The translation of Plutarch’s Parallel Lives contains some extremely long and complicated sentences. It comes as no surprise that the Dryden translations of Plutarch suffer from a lack of punctuation since the original Greek did not contain any punctuation either. In fact, scholars …
