Word: plutarch
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Dates: during 1985-1985
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...love returned, and the other side of that coin, anguish of affection repulsed. So far as adult experience is concerned, to one who will bear a few of its stripes to the grave, it seems a thing to be avoided. Thomas North put it pithily in his introduction to (Plutarch's) Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: 'Experience is the schoolmistress of fools.' North meant that those persons, individually or in association with others . . . unwilling to study history are condemned to relive its tragedies...
...instructor, who holds a master's in history from UCLA, fires questions that leave no room for faked answers: "What does Herodotus say? Plutarch? Xenophon?" demands Paul Mertens, 53. And that is just for starters. "Where do they agree and disagree?" he asks. "Why? How much of a democracy was Athens...