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  1. May 27, 2024 · Plutarch, biographer and author whose works strongly influenced the evolution of the essay, the biography, and historical writing in Europe from the 16th to the 19th century. Among his approximately 227 works, the most important are Parallel Lives and Moralia, or Ethica.

  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › PlutarchPlutarch - Wikipedia

    Epistemology, ethics, history, metaphysics. Plutarch ( / ˈpluːtɑːrk /; Greek: Πλούταρχος, Ploútarchos; Koinē Greek: [ˈplúːtarkʰos]; c. AD 46 – after AD 119) [1] was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, [2] historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi.

  3. Feb 25, 2016 · L. Mestrius Plutarchus, better known simply as Plutarch, was a Greek writer and philosopher who lived between c. 45-50 CE and c. 120-125 CE. A prodigious and hugely influential writer, he is now most...

  4. Sep 7, 2010 · Plutarch of Chaeronea in Boeotia ( ca. 45–120 CE) was a Platonist philosopher, best known to the general public as author of his “Parallel Lives” of paired Greek and Roman statesmen and military leaders.

  5. Plutarch , Greek Plutarchos Latin Plutarchus, (born ad 46, Chaeronea, Boeotia—died after 119), Greek biographer and author. The son of a biographer and philosopher, Plutarch studied in Athens, taught in Rome, traveled widely, and made many important friends before returning to his native town in Boeotia.

  6. May 27, 2024 · Plutarch - Biographer, Historian, Philosopher: Plutarch’s later influence has been profound. He was loved and respected in his own time and in later antiquity; his Lives inspired a rhetorician, Aristides, and a historian, Arrian, to write similar comparisons, and a copy accompanied the emperor Marcus Aurelius when he took the field against ...

  7. Mestrius Plutarchus (c. 46 - 127), known in English as Plutarch, (in Greek Πλούταρχος) was a Greek philosopher, biographer, and essayist. He was a Middle Platonist and was known to have written a number of philosophical treatises.

  8. thegreatthinkers.orgplutarch › biographyBiography - Plutarch

    Biography. Plutarch of Chaeronea is best known as the author of the Parallel Lives, a collection of forty-six short biographies arranged in pairs of Greeks and Romans. He also wrote more than seventy treatises, dialogues, and speeches that have come down to us as the Moralia.

  9. May 23, 2018 · Plutarch is a firm believer in divine providence and the basic goodness of the divine order, but he allows punishment for the sins of ancestors to be inflicted on their descendants ( The Delay of Divine Vengeance ). Emphasis on Plutarch's demonology (better "daimonology") has been much exaggerated.

  10. Plutarch was born and lived out his life in the little town of Chaeronea, Greece, and became a Roman citizen and celebrity. Polymath, Laconophile, best-selling biographer, and priest of Apollo, he is best known for his Parallel Lives, a work of enduring popularity and influence down the ages.