Comments on: The father of biography http://andreaskluth.org/2008/11/03/the-father-of-biography/ What History’s Greatest Military Strategist Can Teach Us About Success And Failure Sat, 26 May 2012 22:08:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: A timeless story: Plutarch > Böll > us | Hannibal and Me http://andreaskluth.org/2008/11/03/the-father-of-biography/#comment-14203 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:53:27 +0000 http://andreaskluth.wordpress.com/?p=645#comment-14203 [...] a story written about 2000 years ago about events more than 300 years before that. The author was Plutarch. The story was about Pyrrhus, the one who gave us “Pyrrhic [...]

]]> By: How Muhammad created Europe? « halewistan http://andreaskluth.org/2008/11/03/the-father-of-biography/#comment-7305 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 09:19:43 +0000 http://andreaskluth.wordpress.com/?p=645#comment-7305 [...] on my list, so I am also retroactively including the historians Herodotus, Polybius, Livy and Plutarch. Thucydides is already on the [...]

]]> By: Alexander the Great and the Gordian Knot « Reem With A View http://andreaskluth.org/2008/11/03/the-father-of-biography/#comment-7168 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:45:44 +0000 http://andreaskluth.wordpress.com/?p=645#comment-7168 [...] he made the knot special. How, we do not know. But Plutarch in his Life of Alexander tells us that it was tied with cords made of the rind of the cornel-tree [...]

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