Plutarch

Greek historian, biographer, and philosopher. Author of the Parallel Lives and Moralia. His work On the Education of Children teaches that memory is the storehouse of learning.

Works

• De Tranquillitate Animi
• On the Education of Children

Preface and Praise of Sacred Scripture

• Chapter V: On the Dispositions Required for This Study — In On the Education of Children, teaches memory is the storehouse of learning

  "Plutarch, in his book On the Education of Children, teaches that memory is the storehouse of learning."

Chapter I (The Six Days of Creation)

• He Created — Listed among philosophers affirming the world was made by God

  "So Plato, the Stoics, Cicero, Plutarch, and Aristotle"

• Verse 20: Let the Waters Bring Forth — Cited alongside Pliny and Aldrovandus on the remora fish

  "Pliny, Plutarch, and Aldrovandus likewise report the same about the remora"

• Verse 24: Let the Earth Bring Forth the Living Creature — Cited for reporting Chrysippus's view on bedbugs and mice

  "Chrysippus, as Plutarch attests in Book V On Nature"

• Verse 26: Let Us Make Man in Our Image and Likeness — Cited from his book On Tranquillity of Mind on the world as God's temple

  "Diogenes, as Plutarch attests in his book On Tranquillity of Mind"