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Plutarch

c. 46 - c. 120

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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  • Cover of: Ploutarchou Perikles.: Life of Pericles; with introd., critical and explanatory notes and indices by Hubert Ashton Holden.

    First published in 1894 4 editions in 2 languages — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Plutarch's Themistocles and Aristides

    First published in 1901 4 editions in 2 languages — 2 previewable Cover of edition cu31924026472799
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  • Cover of: The gover[n]aunce of good helthe

    First published in 1530 4 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: The Roman questions of Plutarch: a new translation with introductory essays & a running commentary

    First published in 1924 4 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Plutarchi vitae.

    First published in 1496 4 editions in 2 languages
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  • Cover of: Les vies des hommes illustres de Plutarque

    First published in 1778 4 editions in 1 language — 3 previewable Cover of edition lesviesdeshomme00delagoog Cover of edition lesviesdeshomme00ricagoog
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  • Cover of: De La vertu éthique.

    First published in 1969 3 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Esoteric Vegetarianism: Vegetarianism in the Light of Philosophy and Occultism

    First published in 2021 3 editions in 1 language
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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

    First published in 2018 3 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Between Heathenism and Christianity: Being a Translation of Seneca's de Providentia, and Plutarch's de Sera Numinis Vindicta, Together with Notes, Additional Extracts from These Writers and Two Essays on Graeco-Roman Life in the First Century After

    First published in 2018 3 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Second Volume

    First published in 2018 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Plutarch's lives

    First published in 1916 3 editions in 2 languages — 2 previewable Cover of edition plutarchslives0000unse
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  • Cover of: Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, First Volume

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  • Cover of: Consolation à Apollonios

    First published in 1972 3 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Les platonismes des premiers siècles de notre ère: Plutarque, l'E de Delphes : traduction nouvelle et commentaire

    First published in 2006 3 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Lives of the Gracchi

    First published in 1885 3 editions in 2 languages
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  • Cover of: Plutarch's lives of the Gracchi

    First published in 1885 3 editions in 2 languages — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Plutarch's lives of Themistocles, Pericles, Aristides, Alcibiades, and Coriolanus, Demosthenes, and Cicero, Caesar and Antony

    First published in 1909 3 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition plutarchslivesof12plut
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  • Cover of: Sur les délais de la justice divine dans la punition des coupables

    First published in 1867 3 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition surlesdlaisdela00amyogoog
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  • Cover of: Eight great lives.: The Dryden translation

    First published in 1960 3 editions in 2 languages — 1 previewable
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Subjects
Biography, Early works to 1800, Ethics, Generals, History, Translations into English, Statesmen, Kings and rulers, Greece, biography, Philosophy, Rome, biography, Ancient Ethics, Rome, Biographies, Classical biography, Greek literature, History and criticism, Plutarch, Greek essays, Translations into Italian, Ancient History, Classical philology, Education, Greek and Roman Music, Isis (Egyptian deity)
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