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Cleopatra - ancient historian Plutarch wrote that she was buried with her lover Mark Antony in an undisclosed location.
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After all, those details have been shared often enough, starting not with Elizabeth Taylor (1963), Shakespeare (1623) or even Plutarch (1st Century AD).
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Both Plutarch and Arrian believed that Alexander died of a disease, and Plutarch rather brusquely rejected the idea that he was poisoned.
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But Arrian and Plutarch both rightly dismissed the tale as a fiction.
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Plutarch said that to err, though not wise, was at least human.
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According to Plutarch, the ephors sent back a message simply saying "if".
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Arrian, Strabo and Plutarch wrote of its beauty and its wealth.
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According to Plutarch, Cato the Younger was determined to die.
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The omission, together with the sensational nature of the stories told by Plutarch and the vulgate sources, prompted at least one modern historian (Sir William Tarn) to dismiss Bagoas as another fiction, as insubstantial as Thalestris.
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