- Plutarch | Biography, Works, Facts | Britannica
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
- Plutarch - World History Encyclopedia
Plutarch has an unerring sense of the drama of men in great situations His eye ranges over a wider field of human action than any of the classical historians He surveys men's conduct in war, in council, in love, in the use of money in religion, in the family, and he judges as a man of wide tolerance and ripe experience (11)
- The Legacy of Plutarch: One of the Greatest Minds of Ancient Greece
Plutarch, an ancient Greek biographer and philosopher, inspires us with enduring wisdom, urging the pursuit of moral excellence and wisdom
- Plutarch - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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
- Plutarch (AD 40-120) Discover history with reliable sources
Best known for Parallel Lives and the Moralia, Plutarch blended biography, philosophy, history, and moral instruction into an accessible and engaging form that inspired readers from the Renaissance to today
- The Works of Plutarch | Sacred Texts Archive
Plutarch was born in 46 C E in Chaeronea, in Boeotia, Greece, and died about 119-127 He was one of the two priests of Apollo at the Oracle of Delphi His skills as a writer and speaker brought him fame in the first century Roman Empire
- Biography - Plutarch
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
- Plutarch His Parallel Lives: The Biographer of Greece Rome
Plutarch produced parallel life biographies of famous figures from ancient Greece and Rome, creating a window into the ancient world
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