{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0007.tlg059.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg059.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg059.local001","title":"Σύγκρισις Δημητρίου καὶ Ἀντωνίου","titleGreek":"Σύγκρισις Δημητρίου καὶ Ἀντωνίου","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":"1920","volume":"9","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":["Tufts University"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Bridget Almas","Lisa Cerrato","Rashmi Singhal"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/plutarchslives09plut/page/332/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plutarch. Σύγκρισις Δημητρίου καὶ Ἀντωνίου. ed. Bernadotte Perrin. Plutarch's Lives, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1920. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg059.local001","excerpt":"ἐπεὶ τοίνυν μεγάλαι περὶ ἀμφοτέρους γεγόνασι μεταβολαί, πρῶτον τὰ τῆς δυνάμεως καὶ τῆς ἐπιφανείας σκοπῶμεν, ὅτι τῷ μὲν ἦν πατρῷα καὶ προκατειργασμένα, μέγιστον ἰσχύσαντος Ἀντιγόνου τῶν διαδόχων καὶ πρὸ τοῦ Δημήτριον ἐν ἡλικίᾳ γενέσθαι τὰ πλεῖστα τῆς Ἀσίας ἐπελθόντος καὶ κρατήσαντος· Ἀντώνιος δὲ χαρίεντος μὲν ἄλλως, ἀπολέμου δὲ καὶ μέγα μηδὲν εἰς δόξαν αὐτῷ καταλιπόντος γενόμενος πατρός, ἐπὶ τὴν Καίσαρος ἐτόλμησεν ἀρχήν, οὐδὲν αὐτῷ κατὰ γένος προσήκουσαν, ἐλθεῖν, καὶ τοῖς ἐκείνῳ προπεπονημένοις αὐτὸς ἑαυτὸν εἰσεποίησε διάδοχον. καὶ τοσοῦτον ἴσχυσεν, ἐκ μόνων τῶν περὶ αὐτὸν ὑπαρχόντων ὁρμώμενος, ὥστε δύο μοίρας τὰ σύμπαντα ποιησάμενος τὴν ἑτέραν ἑλέσθαι καὶ λαβεῖν τὴν ἐπιφανεστέραν, ἀπὼν δὲ αὐτὸς ὑπηρέταις τε καὶ ὑποστρατήγοις Πάρθους τε νικῆσαι πολλάκις καὶ τὰ περὶ Καύκασον ἔθνη βάρβαρα μέχρι τῆς Κασπίας ὤσασθαι θαλάσσης. μαρτύρια δὲ τοῦ μεγέθους αὐτῷ καὶ δι’ ἃ κακῶς ἀκούει. Δημητρίῳ…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg059.local001/1-chapter-1/"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg059.local001/2-chapter-2/"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg059.local001/3-chapter-3/"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg059.local001/4-chapter-4/"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg059.local001/5-chapter-5/"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg059.local001/6-chapter-6/"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg059.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0007.tlg059.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007/tlg059/local001.json.gz"}}