{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0007.tlg041.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg041.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg041.local001","title":"Εὐμένης","titleGreek":"Εὐμένης","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Plutarch","authorityName":"PLUTARCHUS Biogr. et Phil.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0007-plutarchus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0007-plutarchus/","editors":["Bernadotte Perrin"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Plutarch's Lives","edition":null,"publisher":"Harvard University Press","place":"Cambridge, MA","date":"1919","volume":"8","series":"Loeb Classical Library","citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["The National Endowment for the Humanities"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Lisa Cerrato","Rashmi Singhal","Bridget Almas"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/plutarchslives08plut/page/78/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plutarch. Εὐμένης. ed. Bernadotte Perrin. Plutarch's Lives, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1919. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg041.local001","excerpt":"εὐμενῆ δὲ τὸν Καρδιανὸν ἱστορεῖ Δοῦρις πατρὸς μὲν ἁμαξεύοντος ἐν Χερρονήσῳ διὰ πενίαν γενέσθαι, τραφῆναι δὲ ἐλευθερίως ἐν γράμμασι καὶ περὶ παλαίστραν· ἔτι δὲ παιδὸς ὄντος αὐτοῦ Φίλιππον παρεπιδημοῦντα καὶ σχολὴν ἄγοντα τὰ τῶν Καρδιανῶν θεάσασθαι παγκράτια μειρακίων καὶ παλαίσματα παίδων, ἐν οἷς εὐημερήσαντα τὸν Εὐμενῆ καὶ φανέντα συνετὸν καὶ ἀνδρεῖον ἀρέσαι τῷ Φιλίππῳ καὶ ἀναληφθῆναι. δοκοῦσι δὲ εἰκότα λέγειν μᾶλλον οἱ διὰ ξενίαν καὶ φιλίαν πατρῴαν τὸν Εὐμενῆ λέγοντες ὑπὸ τοῦ Φιλίππου προαχθῆναι. μετὰ δὲ τὴν ἐκείνου τελευτὴν οὔτε συνέσει τινὸς οὔτε πίστει λείπεσθαι δοκῶν τῶν περὶ Ἀλέξανδρον ἐκαλεῖτο μὲν ἀρχιγραμματεύς, τιμῆς δὲ ὥσπερ οἱ μάλιστα φίλοι καὶ συνήθεις ἐτύγχανεν, ὥστε καὶ στρατηγὸς ἀποσταλῆναι κατὰ τὴν Ἰνδικὴν ἐφʼ ἑαυτοῦ μετὰ δυνάμεως, καὶ τὴν Περδίκκου παραλαβεῖν ἱππαρχίαν, ὅτε Περδίκκας, ἀποθανόντος Ἡφαιστίωνος, εἰς τὴν ἐκείνου προῆλθε τάξιν. διὸ καὶ Νεοπτολέμου τοῦ…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg041.local001/#tlg0007-tlg041-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg041.local001/#tlg0007-tlg041-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg041.local001/#tlg0007-tlg041-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg041.local001/#tlg0007-tlg041-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg041.local001/#tlg0007-tlg041-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg041.local001/#tlg0007-tlg041-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg041.local001/#tlg0007-tlg041-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg041.local001/#tlg0007-tlg041-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg041.local001/#tlg0007-tlg041-local001-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg041.local001/#tlg0007-tlg041-local001-10"},{"label":"Chapter 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg041.local001/#tlg0007-tlg041-local001-11"},{"label":"Chapter 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg041.local001/#tlg0007-tlg041-local001-12"},{"label":"Chapter 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg041.local001/#tlg0007-tlg041-local001-13"},{"label":"Chapter 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg041.local001/#tlg0007-tlg041-local001-14"},{"label":"Chapter 15","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg041.local001/#tlg0007-tlg041-local001-15"},{"label":"Chapter 16","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg041.local001/#tlg0007-tlg041-local001-16"},{"label":"Chapter 17","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg041.local001/#tlg0007-tlg041-local001-17"},{"label":"Chapter 18","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg041.local001/#tlg0007-tlg041-local001-18"},{"label":"Chapter 19","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg041.local001/#tlg0007-tlg041-local001-19"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg041.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0007.tlg041.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007/tlg041/local001.json.gz"}}