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Plutarch

Plutarch, born Plutarchos (Greek: Πλούταρχος) then, on his becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (Μέστριος Πλούταρχος), c. 46 – 120 AD, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia. He was born to a prominent family in Chaeronea, Boeotia, a town about twenty miles east of Delphi. Plutarch died between the years AD 119 and 127.

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Greek philosopher and historian (c. AD 46 – after AD 119)

Born c. 46
Died c. 120

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  • Cover of: A Consolatorie letter or discourse: sent by Plutarch of Chæronea unto his owne wife as touching the death of her and his daughter.

    First published in 1905 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: A consolatorie letter or discourse sent by Plutarch of Chaeronea unto his owne wife as touching the death of her and his daughter.

    First published in 1905 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Cuestiones Romanas (Clasica)

    First published in 1992 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Das Mondgesicht.

    First published in 1968 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Dialogues pythiques

    First published in 1974 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Epithome Plutarchi.

    First published in 1501 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Ethicorum: sive, Moralium...

    First published in 1572 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Euvres morales (Collection des universites de France)

    First published in 1972 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Ex Plutarcho versa

    First published in 1520 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Four chapters of North's Plutarch: containing the lives of Caius Marcius Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Marcus Antonius and Marcus Brutus as sources to Shakespeare's tragedies Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and partly to Hamlet and Timon of Athens : photolithographed in the size of the original edition of 1595 : with preface, notes comparing the text of the editions of 1579, 1595 and 1603 and reference-notes to the text of the tragedies of Shakespeare

    First published in 1878 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Fragmenta et spuria

    First published in 1855 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: A general table of the matters contained in the eight volumes of the Lives of Plutarch

    First published in 1749 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Great sons of Greece: Plutarch's "Lives" of famous Greeks adapted for schools and home reading

    First published in 1930 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: The Greek questions of Plutarch with a new translation & commentary

    First published in 1975 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Greek and Roman lives

    First published in 2005 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Het leven van Demosthenes

    First published in 1939 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Homeri vita

    First published in 1537 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Howe one may take profite of his enmyes [sic], translated out of Plutarche

    First published in 1531 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: How to profit by your enemies =: Pōs an tis ep' echthron opheloito

    First published in 1998 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Inimicus amicus: an excellent treatise, shewing how a man may reape profit by his enemy.

    First published in 1601 — 1 edition
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Greek philosopher and historian (c. AD 46 – after AD 119)

Born c. 46
Died c. 120

Subjects

Early works to 1800, Biography, Ethics, Generals, History, Translations into English, Kings and rulers, Statesmen, Greece, biography, Rome, biography, Philosophy, Ancient Ethics, Rome, Biographies, Classical biography, Greek literature, History and criticism, Plutarch, Greek essays, Translations into Italian, Ancient History, Ancient Philosophy, Aphorisms and apothegms, Classical philology, Education

Places

Greece, Rome, Rome (Empire), Athens (Greece), Grèce, Athens, Italy, Macedonia, Rome (Italy), Sicily (Italy), Sparta, Sparta (Extinct city), America, Delphi (Extinct city), Grecia, Grecja, Greece (Extinct city), Historiography, India, Rzym (państwo)

People

Plutarch, Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C), Alcibiades, Marcus Antonius (83?-30 B.C), Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pericles (499-429 B.C), Themistocles (ca. 524-ca. 459 B.C), Demosthenes, Cnaeus Marcius Coriolanus, Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, Aratus of Sicyon (271-213 B.C), Aristides the Just, Gaius Sempronius Gracchus (154-121 B.C), Nicias, Epicurus, Marcus Junius Brutus (85?-42 B.C), Marcus Porcius Cato (234-149 B.C), Osiris (Egyptian deity), Aratus Solensis, Herodotus, Homer, Isis (Egyptian deity), Marcus Licinius Crassus, Marcus Salvius Otho Emperor of Rome (32-69)

Time

Republic, 265-30 B.C., Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C., Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C., To 146 B.C., To 800, 265-30 B.C., 53-44 B.C., First Triumvirate, 60-53 B.C., Macedonian Hegemony, 323-281 B.C., Macedonian expansion, 359-323 B.C., Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C., To 146 B.C, To 1500, To 324 B.C.

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Alternative names

  • Plutarch
  • Μέστριος Πλούταρχος
  • Πλούταρχος
  • Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus
  • L. Mestrius Plutarchus
  • Plutarchus
  • Mestrius Plutarchus
  • Plutarch/Kindstrand
  • Plutarchus.
  • Plutarchos
  • Plutarco
  • Plutarco.
  • Plutarque
  • Plutarque.
  • De Plutarque
  • Plutarchus, Mestrius
  • L . Mestrius Plutarchus
  • Plutarchus Chaeronensis
  • Plutchard

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February 27, 2024 Edited by Drini merge authors
September 3, 2023 Edited by David Scotson Edited without comment.
September 3, 2023 Edited by David Scotson Added new photo
September 27, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import