the influence of Plutarch's Lives on American presidents

[basquebromance]

Alexander Hamilton read the text as America was losing the war. TR read it 1 thousand times.

John Adams also was a fan.

 

[JLW]

Trump thinks Plutarch is a Disney character.

 

[basquebromance]

Trump thinks Plutarch is a Disney character.

he isnt?

 

[basquebromance]

up until the early 20th century, Plutarch's biographies of famous greeks and romans were a standard companion for leaders

 

[basquebromance]

Plutarch's aim was to study virtue so that it could be imitated

 

[toobfreak]

up until the early 20th century, Plutarch's biographies of famous greeks and romans were a standard companion for leaders

Plutarch got a crater named after him right on the rim of the (Earth facing) Moon right above the Mare Crisium (Sea of Crises).

 

[basquebromance]

Plutarch highlighted bad leaders in order to make us avoid "the wildness of extremes"

 

[basquebromance]

leaders matter tremendously, just not in the way we traditionally think they do

 

[whitehall]

the thing pop-culture idiots of today fail to grasp is that the Founding Fathers and subsequent generations of America's leaders received a classical education that included Plutarch and Greek and Roman figures and they discussed them freely. Today's victims of public education barely learn how to apply a condom to a banana.