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Plutarch, Demosthenes, 2.1

τῷ μέντοι σύνταξιν ὑποβεβλημένῳ καὶ ἱστορίαν ἐξ οὐ προχείρων οὐδʼ οἰκείων, ἀλλὰ ξένων τε τῶν πολλῶν καὶ διεσπαρμένων ἐν ἑτέροις συνιοῦσαν ἀναγνωσμάτων, τῷ ὄντι χρὴ πρῶτον ὑπάρχειν καὶ μάλιστα τὴν πόλιν εὐδόκιμον καὶ φιλόκαλον καὶ πολυάνθρωπον, ὡς βιβλίων τε παντοδαπῶν ἀφθονίαν ἔχων, καὶ ὅσα τοὺς γράφοντας διαφύγοντα σωτηρίᾳ μνήμης ἐπιφανεστέραν εἴληφε πίστιν ὑπολαμβάνων ἀκοῇ καὶ διαπυνθανόμενος, μὴ πολλῶν μηδʼ ἀναγκαίων ἐνδεὲς ἀποδιδοίη τὸ ἔργον.  However, when one has undertaken to compose a history based upon readings which are not readily accessible or even found at home, but in foreign countries, for the most part, and scattered about among different owners, for him it is really necessary, first and above all things, that he should live in a city which is famous, friendly to the liberal arts, and populous, in order that he may have all sorts of books in plenty, and may by hearsay and enquiry come into possession of all those details which elude writers and are preserved with more conspicuous fidelity in the memories of men.

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

23 results
1. Demosthenes, On The Crown, 3 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
2. Cicero, De Lege Agraria, 2.4 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
3. Cicero, Letters, 2.12.2 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
4. Cicero, Letters, 2.12.2 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
5. Cicero, Letters, 2.12.2 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
6. Cicero, Letters To His Friends, 5.12.8 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
7. Cicero, Letters, 2.12.2 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
8. Polybius, Histories, 12.27.1-12.27.3 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) 12.27.1.  Nature has given us two instruments, as it were, by the aid of which we inform ourselves and inquire about everything. These are hearing and sight, and of the two sight is much more veracious according to Heracleitus. "The eyes are more accurate witnesses than that ears," he says. 12.27.2.  Now, Timaeus enters on his inquiries by the pleasanter of the two roads, but the inferior one. 12.27.3.  For he entirely avoids employing his eyes and prefers to employ his ears. Now the knowledge derived from hearing being of two sorts, Timaeus diligently pursued the one, the reading of books, as I have above pointed out, but was very remiss in his use of the other, the interrogation of living witnesses.
9. New Testament, 1 Peter, 1.23 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 1.23. having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.
10. New Testament, Acts, 7.38 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 7.38. This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living oracles to give to us
11. Plutarch, Alexander The Great, 1.1-1.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 1.2. For it is not Histories that I am writing, but Lives; and in the most illustrious deeds there is not always a manifestation of virtue or vice, nay, a slight thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of character than battles where thousands fall, or the greatest armaments, or sieges of cities.
12. Plutarch, Cato The Elder, 19.4 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
13. Plutarch, Cicero, 49.5 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
14. Plutarch, On Praising Oneself Inoffensively, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
15. Plutarch, Demetrius, 1.1-1.4, 2.1-2.3 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
16. Plutarch, Demosthenes, 1.1, 2.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
17. Plutarch, Dion, 1.1 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
18. Plutarch, Nicias, 1.5 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
19. Plutarch, Theseus, 1.1 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
20. Quintilian, Institutes of Oratory, 11.1.15, 11.1.17 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 11.1.15.  When, however, we are speaking of our own affairs or those of others, we must distinguish between the expedient and the becoming, while recognising that the majority of the points which we have to consider will fall under neither head. In the first place, then, all kinds of boasting are a mistake, above all, it is an error for an orator to praise his own eloquence, and, further, not merely wearies, but in the majority of cases disgusts the audience. 11.1.17.  As a result, those who are beneath him feel a grudge against him (for those who are unwilling to yield and yet have not the strength to hold their own are always liable to this failing), while his superiors laugh at him and the good disapprove. Indeed, as a rule, you will find that arrogance implies a false self-esteem, whereas those who possess true merit find satisfaction enough in the consciousness of possession. Cicero has been severely censured in this connexion, although he was far more given to boasting of his political achievements than of his eloquence, at any rate, in his speeches.
21. Apuleius, The Golden Ass, 1.2 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
22. Marcus Aurelius Emperor of Rome, Meditations, 1.9 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
23. Philostratus The Athenian, Life of Apollonius, 1.2 (2nd cent. CE 1.2. FOR quite akin to theirs was the ideal which Apollonius pursued, and more divinely than Pythagoras he wooed wisdom and soared above tyrants; and he lived in times not long gone by nor quite of our own day, yet men know him not because of the true wisdom, which he practiced as sage and sanely; but one man singles out one feature for praise in him and another another; while some, because he had interviews with the wizards of Babylon and with the Brahmans of India, and with the nude ascetics of Egypt, put him down as a wizard, and spread the calumny that he was a sage of an illegitimate kind, judging of him ill. For Empedocles and Pythagoras himself and Democritus consorted with wizards and uttered many supernatural truths, yet never stooped to the black art; and Plato went to Egypt and mingled with his own discourses much of what he heard from the prophets and priests there; and though, like a painter, he laid his own colors on to their rough sketches, yet he never passed for a wizard, although envied above all mankind for his wisdom. For the circumstance that Apollonius foresaw and foreknew so many things does not in the least justify us in imputing to him this kind of wisdom; we might as well accuse Socrates of the same, because, thanks to his familiar spirit, he knew things beforehand, and we might also accuse Anaxagoras because of the many things which he foretold. And indeed who does not know the story of how Anaxagoras at Olympia in a season when least rain falls came forward wearing a fleece into the stadium, by way of predicting rain, and of how he foretold the fall of the house, — and truly, for it did fall; and of how he said that day would be turned into night, and stones would be discharged from heaven round Aegospotami, and of how his predictions were fulfilled? Now these feats are set down to the wisdom of Anaxagoras by the same people who would rob Apollonius of the credit of having predicted things by dint of wisdom, and say that he achieved these results by art of wizardry.It seems to me then that I ought not to condone or acquiesce in the general ignorance, but write a true account of the man, detailing the exact times at which he said or did this or that, as also the habits and temper of wisdom by means of which he succeeded in being considered a supernatural and divine being.And I have gathered my information partly from the many cities where he was loved, and partly from the sanctuaries whose long-neglected and decayed rites he restored, and partly from the accounts left of him by others and partly from his own letters. For he addressed these to kings, sophists, philosophers, to men of Elis, of Delphi, to Indians, and Ethiopians; and in his letters he dealt with the subjects of the gods, of customs, of moral principles, of laws, and in all these departments he corrected the errors into which men had fallen. But the more precise details which I have collected are as follows.

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
address to the readers (second-person)	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 49
alexandria	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 20
amazon	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 19
ambition/ambitious	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 28, 44
artist	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 27
athens, athenians	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 19
athens	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 49; Leão and Lanzillotta, A Man of Many Interests: Plutarch on Religion, Myth, and Magic (2019) 3
atticus	Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 27
audience, plutarchs interaction with his	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 44
autopsy	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 63
biography, biographical	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 63, 64
biography	Leão and Lanzillotta, A Man of Many Interests: Plutarch on Religion, Myth, and Magic (2019) 3
books	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 20, 64; Jażdżewska and Doroszewski,Plutarch and his Contemporaries: Sharing the Roman Empire (2024) 208
building programme, public buildings	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 63, 64
caesar	Beneker et al., Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia (2022) 2
capitolium	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 63
chaeronea	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 19, 20; Beneker et al., Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia (2022) 2; Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 44
character (plutarchs and readers concern with)	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 44
characterisation, plutarchs self-	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 44
cicero, and rhetoric vs. action	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 27, 28, 49
cicero, compared with demosthenes	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 28, 49
cicero, on living voice versus writing	Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 27
cicero	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 27, 28, 44, 49
circus maximus	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 63
citizen	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 19, 20
clement of alexandria, on writing versus living voice	Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 27
closure (endings of biographies)	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 49
community, of plutarch, readers, and the subjects	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 27
corinth, corinthian	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 19
criticism, plutarchs stance towards others	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 44
criticism, readers exercise of	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 44
criticism	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 44
cult	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 19
delphi, oracle	Leão and Lanzillotta, A Man of Many Interests: Plutarch on Religion, Myth, and Magic (2019) 3
delphi	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 20, 63
demosthenes (orator), compared with cicero	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 27, 28, 49
demosthenes (orator)	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 27, 28, 44, 49
descendants	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 49
domitian	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 63
education	Leão and Lanzillotta, A Man of Many Interests: Plutarch on Religion, Myth, and Magic (2019) 3
envy	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 44
examples (i.e. paradigm), oikeia	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 44
examples (i.e. paradigm), plutarch himself as	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 44
examples (i.e. paradigm), the subjects as	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 44
examples (i.e. paradigm)	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 44
experience, plutarchs personal	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 28
experience	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 63
first-person plurals, authorial	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 49
first-person plurals, inclusive	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 27
first-person plurals	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 27
forum boarium	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 63
forum romanum	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 63
guide	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 63
happiness	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 27
hero	Leão and Lanzillotta, A Man of Many Interests: Plutarch on Religion, Myth, and Magic (2019) 3
historia	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 49
historians	Leão and Lanzillotta, A Man of Many Interests: Plutarch on Religion, Myth, and Magic (2019) 3
historiography	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 49; Jażdżewska and Doroszewski,Plutarch and his Contemporaries: Sharing the Roman Empire (2024) 208
history	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 49; Leão and Lanzillotta, A Man of Many Interests: Plutarch on Religion, Myth, and Magic (2019) 3
imperial, court	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 63
imperial	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 63
isis	Leão and Lanzillotta, A Man of Many Interests: Plutarch on Religion, Myth, and Magic (2019) 3
learning	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 49
library'	Jażdżewska and Doroszewski,Plutarch and his Contemporaries: Sharing the Roman Empire (2024) 208
library	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 19
living voice versus writing, definition of living voice, in classical/ early christian world	Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 27
living voice versus writing, greco-roman pagans on	Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 27
living voice versus writing	Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 27
lycurgus	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 44; Leão and Lanzillotta, A Man of Many Interests: Plutarch on Religion, Myth, and Magic (2019) 3
marcus aurelius	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 20
medicine and medical discourse, polybius on	Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 27
memory, historical	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 64
monuments	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 63, 64
moralia	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 27
myth, mythical, mythological	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 19
narrative, structure	Leão and Lanzillotta, A Man of Many Interests: Plutarch on Religion, Myth, and Magic (2019) 3
narrator, authority of	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 49
narrator	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 49
on living voice versus writing	Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 27
oracles	Leão and Lanzillotta, A Man of Many Interests: Plutarch on Religion, Myth, and Magic (2019) 3
orator(y), plutarchs interest in	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 27, 28
orator(y)	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 27, 28
palace, domitians	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 63
past, connected with present	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 44
perspectives, blurring of internal and external	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 27
philosophy/philosophers/philosophical, and plutarch	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 27, 28
philosophy/philosophers/philosophical, and politics	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 27, 28
plutarchs lives, life of alexander	Leão and Lanzillotta, A Man of Many Interests: Plutarch on Religion, Myth, and Magic (2019) 3
plutarchs lives, life of lycurgus	Leão and Lanzillotta, A Man of Many Interests: Plutarch on Religion, Myth, and Magic (2019) 3
plutarchs lives, life of solon	Leão and Lanzillotta, A Man of Many Interests: Plutarch on Religion, Myth, and Magic (2019) 3
plutarchs lives, life of theseus	Leão and Lanzillotta, A Man of Many Interests: Plutarch on Religion, Myth, and Magic (2019) 3
politics, plutarchs dealing with	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 27, 28
politics	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 49
polybius	Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 27; Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 49; Jażdżewska and Doroszewski,Plutarch and his Contemporaries: Sharing the Roman Empire (2024) 208
proclus, commentator on plato	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 20
prologue (to plutarchs book)	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 27, 28, 44, 49
readers, critical/resistant	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 27, 28
rhetoric(al), contrasted with action	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 44
rhetoric(al), of plutarch	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 49
rome, city	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 19, 63, 64
rome	Beneker et al., Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia (2022) 2; Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 27, 28; Leão and Lanzillotta, A Man of Many Interests: Plutarch on Religion, Myth, and Magic (2019) 3
self-praise	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 44
servilia	Beneker et al., Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia (2022) 2
sextus, of chaeronea	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 20
solon	Leão and Lanzillotta, A Man of Many Interests: Plutarch on Religion, Myth, and Magic (2019) 3
sosius senecio	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 28, 49
sources, plutarchs use or criticism of	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 49
sources	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 49
specific christian intellectuals, living voice versus writing in	Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 27
speech(es)	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 27, 28
statues	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 49
style/stylistic (interest in)	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 27, 28
synkrisis, formal	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 49
timaeus	Chrysanthou, Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives': Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (2018) 49
timaeus (historian)	Ayres and Ward, The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual (2021) 27
topography, topographical	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 19
travel	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 63
vespasian	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 63
visible	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 64
vividness	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 19