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Plutarch, Cimon, 4.6


ὁ δὲ Πολύγνωτος οὐκ ἦν τῶν βαναύσων οὐδʼ ἀπʼ ἐργολαβίας ἔγραφε τὴν στοάν, ἀλλὰ προῖκα, φιλοτιμούμενος πρὸς τὴν πόλιν, ὡς οἵ τε συγγραφεῖς ἱστοροῦσι καὶ Μελάνθιος ὁ ποιητὴς λέγει τὸν τρόπον τοῦτον· Now Polygnotus was not a mere artisan, and did not paint the stoa for a contract price, but gratis, out of zeal for the welfare of the city, as the historians relate, and as Melanthius the poet testifies after this fashion:— "He at his own lavish outlay the gods' great fanes, and the market Named Cecropia, adorned; demigods' valour his theme.


Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

13 results
1. Homer, Iliad, 9.584 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

9.584. /and the half clear plough-land, to be cut from out the plain. And earnestly the old horseman Oeneus besought him, standing upon the threshold of his high-roofed chamber, and shaking the jointed doors, in prayer to his son, and earnestly too did his sisters and his honoured mother beseech him
2. Aeschines, Letters, 3.186 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

3. Demosthenes, Orations, 13.21-13.22, 20.112-20.116, 23.196 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

4. Hyginus, Fabulae (Genealogiae), 174 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

5. Pliny The Elder, Natural History, 35.34 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

6. Plutarch, Whether An Old Man Should Engage In Public Affairs, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

792b. because he was completely enfeebled by long inactivity and peace, was actually kept and fattened like a sheep by Philopoemen, one of his courtiers; so that even the Romans used in jest to ask those who came from Asia if the king had any influence with Philopoemen. And it would be impossible to find many abler generals among the Romans than Lucullus, when he combined thought with action; but when he gave himself up to a life of inactivity and to a home-keeping and thought-free existence, he became a wasted skeleton, like sponges in calm seas, and then when he committed his old age to the care and nursing of one of his freedmen named Callisthenes
7. Plutarch, Cimon, 2.3-2.5, 4.4-4.5, 4.7, 14.3-14.4, 15.3, 16.3, 17.3-17.7, 19.3-19.4 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

8. Plutarch, Comparison of Lucullus With Cimon, 1.2-1.3, 2.3, 2.5 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

9. Plutarch, On The Glory of The Athenians, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

10. Plutarch, Lucullus, 39.1, 42.3 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

11. Antoninus Liberalis, Collection of Metamorphoses, 2.6 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

12. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1.15 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

13. Aeschines, Or., 3.186



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
achilles Bremmer, Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East (2008) 327
aeschines Gygax, Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism (2016) 169
aeschylus Gygax, Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism (2016) 169
aftermath of cities Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 94
alcibiades Bremmer, Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East (2008) 327
alcmene Bremmer, Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East (2008) 327
allusions, literary Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 139
allusions, platonic Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 139
allusions Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 139
amphitryon Bremmer, Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East (2008) 327
anecdote Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 87
anonymous interlocutors Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 141
apsyrtos Bremmer, Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East (2008) 327
architecture Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 86, 87
ares, ares, temple of Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 87
artemis Bremmer, Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East (2008) 327
athenians, and cimon Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 94
athenians Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 94
athens, athenians Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 86, 87
athens Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 87
audience, plutarchs interaction with his Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 139
audience, the subjects interaction with his Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 94
audience Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 87
brothers, andsisters Bremmer, Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East (2008) 327
callimachus, athenian polemarch Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 86
cassandra Bremmer, Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East (2008) 327
chance Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 141
character (plutarchs and readers concern with) Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 94, 139
characterisation, of the subjects Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 94
cimon, athenians criticism of Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 94, 141
cimon, compared with lucullus Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 139, 141
cimon Bremmer, Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East (2008) 327; Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 94, 139, 141; Gygax, Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism (2016) 169
closure (endings of biographies) Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 94
cognition Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 94
comedy, comic poets, plutarchs parallelism of life with Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 139
comedy, comic poets Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 139
community, the subject and his Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 94
corinna, advice to pindar Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 87
counterfactuals Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 94
criticism, and counter-suggestibility Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 94
criticism, contemporary to the story narrated, exercised by onlookers Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 94
criticism, plutarchs Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 139, 141
criticism Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 139, 141
cynaegirus Gygax, Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism (2016) 169
cynegirus Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 86
death, and posthumous conversion of people Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 94
decisions, of the subjects Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 94
demagoguery, demagogues Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 94
elpinice Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 86, 87; Bremmer, Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East (2008) 327
envy Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 94
epizelus Gygax, Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism (2016) 169
equality (in moral evaluation) Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 139, 141
eucles, marathon runner Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 86, 87
eucles iv Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 87
examples (i.e. paradigm), the subjects as Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 139
examples (i.e. paradigm) Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 139
flattery, flatterers Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 94
fortune, success/failure as result of Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 141
fortune Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 141
future (allusions to/evocation of) Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 94
general statements (moral) Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 139
harmodius Bremmer, Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East (2008) 327
heracleides ponticus Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 86
herodes atticus, father of Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 87
hipparchus Bremmer, Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East (2008) 327
history, greek Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 94
history Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 94
honors, controversy surrounding Gygax, Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism (2016) 169
humanity Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 94
iconography, athenian Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 86, 87
iliona Bremmer, Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East (2008) 327
learning Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 139
lives Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 141
localization Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 87
lucullus, compared with cimon Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 139, 141
lucullus, in the moralia Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 139
lucullus, plutarchs evaluation of the generalship of Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 94, 139, 141
lucullus, plutarchs evaluation of the retirement of Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 139, 141
lucullus, within his social environment Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 94, 139, 141
lucullus Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 94, 139, 141
luxury Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 139
marathon, battle of Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 86, 87
marathon Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 87
maternal uncles Bremmer, Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East (2008) 327
melanthius Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 87
meleager Bremmer, Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East (2008) 327
meleagrides Bremmer, Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East (2008) 327
menander Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 87
miltiades Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 86, 87; Gygax, Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism (2016) 169
money, for construction projects Gygax, Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism (2016) 169
moral turnaround Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 94
onlookers Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 94
painting, battle of mantinea Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 86
painting, battle of marathon Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 86, 87
painting Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 86, 87
panathenaic way Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 87
perspectives, of the readers Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 139
phaeton Bremmer, Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East (2008) 327
philosophy/philosophers/philosophical, the subjects acquaintance with Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 139
philosophy/philosophers/philosophical Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 139
pindar Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 87
plato, platonic Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 139
pliny the elder Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 86
plutarch Gygax, Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism (2016) 169
politics, the subjects preoccupation with Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 139
politics Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 139
polycharmus Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 87
polydorus Bremmer, Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East (2008) 327
polygnotus Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 86, 87
polymestor Bremmer, Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East (2008) 327
polyzelus Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 86
private life Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 141
prologue (to plutarchs book) Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 94
psychology, psychological, ability of the subjects to be attuned to others Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 141
public buildings, in fifth-century athens Gygax, Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism (2016) 169
questions (narrative technique), in the synkriseis Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 141
questions (narrative technique) Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 141
readers, critical/resistant Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 141
representation Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 87
retrospection (backward movement) Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 139, 141
rewards, excessive Gygax, Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism (2016) 169
romans, and lucullus Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 94
romans Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 94
sanctuary Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 87
sisters and brothers' Bremmer, Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East (2008) 327
social/society, dialogue of individual with Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 94, 141
social/society, plutarchs interest in Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 94
social/society, plutarchs reconstruction of Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 94
social/society Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 94, 141
sophanes of decelea Gygax, Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism (2016) 169
sophist Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 87
sparta(ns) Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 94
spectator Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 86
statue, eucles iv Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 87
statues, of miltiades Gygax, Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism (2016) 169
statues, of themistocles Gygax, Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism (2016) 169
stoa, of zeus eleutherios Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 87
stoa, poikile Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 86, 87
stoa poikile Gygax, Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism (2016) 169
surprise Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 139
synkrisis, formal Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 139, 141
the preceding lives Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 141
themistocles Gygax, Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism (2016) 169
thersippus of erchia Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 86
thucydides Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 86
troilos Bremmer, Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East (2008) 327
visible Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 87