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The writings of the historian Plutarch form a significant portion of our information concerning the rise of the Roman Republic, and its eventual end. In one of those texts, Plutarch's "Lives", he recounts something rather strange--the appearance in the sky of a bright flash of light and, apparently, a cylindrical object whose color is "like molten silver". What exactly was he describing? Was it a UFO, as some people (apparently including at least professional scholars) believe? Or something else?
SOURCES:
UFOs in Classical Antiquity, Stothers
Plutarch's "Parallel Lives"
Religions of Rome: Vol. 1, Beard, North, & Price
The writings of the historian Plutarch form a significant portion of our information concerning the rise of the Roman Republic, and its eventual end. In one of those texts, Plutarch's "Lives", he recounts something rather strange--the appearance in the sky of a bright flash of light and, apparently, a cylindrical object whose color is "like molten silver". What exactly was he describing? Was it a UFO, as some people (apparently including at least professional scholars) believe? Or something else?
SOURCES:
UFOs in Classical Antiquity, Stothers
Plutarch's "Parallel Lives"
Religions of Rome: Vol. 1, Beard, North, & Price
