Plutarch#Parallelbiographien
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- Status:
- Vollständiges Werk
- Autorschaft:
- Vom Autor verfasst
- Zustand des Textes:
- Kein Scanrauschen festgestellt (automatische Messung über den ganzen Text, nicht von Hand geprüft)
- Umfang:
- ~750.000 Wörter · 3.583 Passagen
Dieses Werk zitieren
- APAPlutarch. (n.d.). Plutarch Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans [Plutarch#Parallelbiographien]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/de/works/plutarch/plutarch-lives-of-the-noble-grecians-and-romans
- MLAPlutarch. Plutarch Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans [Plutarch#Parallelbiographien]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/de/works/plutarch/plutarch-lives-of-the-noble-grecians-and-romans.
- ChicagoPlutarch. Plutarch Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans [Plutarch#Parallelbiographien]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/de/works/plutarch/plutarch-lives-of-the-noble-grecians-and-romans.
Angabe der Ausgabe, die SigPhi wiedergibt: SigPhi ist ihre digitale Reproduktion, nicht der Verlag. Das Erscheinungsjahr steht nicht in den Metadaten (daher „n.d.“), und der Übersetzer erscheint nur, wenn er verzeichnet ist.
Wovon es handelt
Dreiundzwanzig Lebenspaare, je ein griechisches und ein römisches, einander gegenübergestellt: Alexander und Caesar, Demosthenes und Cicero.
Kontext und Geschichte
Plutarch schrieb sie zu Beginn des 2. Jahrhunderts und warnt, er schreibe keine Geschichte, sondern Lebensbeschreibungen: eine kleine Geste oder ein Satz verrieten den Charakter besser als eine Schlacht mit Tausenden von Toten. Über Norths englische Übersetzung erreichten sie Shakespeare, der Julius Caesar, Coriolan und Antonius und Cleopatra fast Szene für Szene daraus zog.
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those that were to be sent, there arose fresh discontents and accusations against Aegeus among the people, who were full of grief and indignation that he, who was the cause of all their miseries, was the only person exempt from the punishment; adopting and settling his kingdom upon a bastard and foreign son, he took no thought, they said, of their destitution and loss, not of bastards, but lawful children. These things sensibly affected Theseus, who, thinking it but just not to disregard, but rather partake of, the sufferings of his fellow citizens, offered himself for one without any lot. All else were struck with admiration for the nobleness and with love for the goodness of the act; and Aegeus, after prayers and entreaties, finding him inflexible and not to be persuaded, proceeded to the choosing of the rest by lot. Hellanicus, however, tells us that the Athenians did not send the young men and virgins by lot, but that Minos himself used to come and make his own choice, and pitched upon Theseus before all others; according to the conditions agreed upon between them, namely, that the Athenians should furnish them with a ship, and that the young men that were to sail with him should carry no weapon of war; but that if the Minotaur was destroyed, the tribute should cease. On the two former occasions of the payment of the tribute, entertaining no hopes of safety or return, they sent out the ship with a black sail, as to unavoidable destruction; but now, Theseus encouraging his father and speaking greatly of himself, as confident that he should kill the Minotaur, he gave the pilot another sail, which was white, commanding him, as he returned, if Theseus were safe, to make use of that; but if not, to sail with the black one, and to hang out that sign of his misfortune.…