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    Plutarch of Athens (Greek: Πλούταρχος ὁ Ἀθηναῖος; c. 350 – 430 AD) was a Greek philosopher and Neoplatonist who taught in Athens at the beginning of the...
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  • Platonist. Plutarch may also refer to the following people: Plutarch of Alexandria, an ancient Greek grammarian and deipnosophist Plutarch of Athens (circa...
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    Solon (redirect from Solon of Athens)
    eventually awarded possession of the island to Athens on the strength of the case that Solon put to them. Plutarch professes admiration of Solon's elegy. The same...
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    origins of neoplatonist teaching in Athens are uncertain, but when Proclus arrived in Athens in the early 430s, he found Plutarch of Athens and his colleague...
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    The Acropolis of Athens (Ancient Greek: ἡ Ἀκρόπολις τῶν Ἀθηνῶν, romanized: hē Akropolis tōn Athēnōn; Modern Greek: Ακρόπολη Αθηνών, romanized: Akrópoli...
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    Theseus (category Kings of Athens)
    dispersed," Plutarch reported. Pasiphaë, wife of King Minos of Crete, had several children. The eldest of these, Androgeus, set sail for Athens to take part...
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    that letter of consolation. Plutarch studied mathematics and philosophy in Athens under Ammonius from AD 66 to 67. He attended the games of Delphi where...
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    around 456 BCE. While at Athens, he became close with the Athenian statesman Pericles. According to Diogenes, Laërtius and Plutarch, in later life he was...
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    Stoicism (redirect from Ethics of Stoicism)
    in the ancient Agora of Athens by Zeno of Citium around 300 BC. Alongside Aristotle's ethics, the Stoic tradition forms one of the major founding approaches...
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     19–20. Plutarch, On the Sign of Socrates 583a Iamblichus, Vit. Pyth. 255–259; Porphyry, Vit. Pyth. 54–57; Diogenes Laërtius, viii. 39; comp. Plutarch, de...
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