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Nicias(legendary, died 413 B.C.E.)By PlutarchWritten 75 A.C.E.Translated by John Dryden. CRASSUS, in my opinion, may most properly be set against Nicias, and the Parthian disaster compared with that in Sicily. But here it will be well for me to entreat the reader, in all courtesy, not to think that I contend with Thucydides in matters so ...
Who was Nicias? What we know of Nicias' early life comes mostly from Plutarch. He had inherited wealth from his family; he was by nature generous and pious, although not particularly sociable; and he seemed to be the natural leader of the aristocratic party after the death of Pericles. Plutarch describes Nicias as timorous.
Nov 12, 2004 · LIFE OF PLUTARCH. Plutarch was born probably between A.D. 45 and A.D. 50, at the little town of Chaeronea in Boeotia. His family appears to have been long established in this place, the scene of the final destruction of the liberties of Greece, when Philip defeated the Athenians and Boeotian forces there in 338 B.C.
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Plutarch, Nicias, chapter 11. Hide browse bar. chapter: section: 11. At last the feud between Nicias and Alcibiades became so intense that recourse was had to the process of ostracism. This the people used to institute from time to time when they wished to remove for ten years, by the ostrakon ballot, any one man who was an object of suspicion ...
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Series. Part of Plutarch's Parallel Lives.The Roman counterpart of Nicias is Crassus; see also Plutarch's comparison of the two men.. Edition information. Perrin translation The translation of Bernadotte Perrin, as printed in Plutarch's Lives (Loeb Classical Library).
years, 1 and then, in this spirit, debated the whole issue, and made peace. 2 Most men held it to be a manifest release from ills, and Nicias was in every mouth. They said he was a man beloved of God, and that Heaven had bestowed on him, for his reverent piety, the privilege of giving his name to the greatest and fairest of blessings.
