Thursday, April 01, 2004

Ancient Opinion on Titles Still Reverberates

Plurtarch, speaking in regards to Antigonus and Demetrius being given "for the first time, the title of kings."

"The men’s sentiments about themselves were disturbed, and their feelings elevated; a spirit of pomp and arrogance passed into their habits of life and conversation, as a tragic actor on the stage modifies, with a change of dress, his steps, his voice, his motions in sitting down, his manner in addressing another."

Plutarch, Plutarch’s Lives, Demetrius, pg. 1082

Posted by John Venlet on 04/01 at 08:39 PM
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