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November 23, 2010 | History

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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Subjects
Biography, Early works to 1800, Ethics, Statesmen, Kings and rulers, Ancient Ethics, Greek essays, Translations into Italian, Accessible book, Generals, Political science, Orators, Aphorisms and apothegms, Quotations, Rome, History, Translations into English, Education, Greek and Roman Music, History and criticism, Philosophy, Stoics, Syriac language, Texts and translations, Civilization, Greco-Roman
Places
Greece, Rome, Athens (Greece), Athens, Sparta (Extinct city), Rome (Italy), Biography, Sicily (Italy), Grèce, Macedonia, America, Delphi (Extinct city), Historiography, India
People
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Plutarch, Demosthenes, Pericles (499-429 B.C), Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C), Epicurus, Nicias, Socrates, Demosthenes (384-322 B.C), Dion Tyrant of Syracuse, Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 B.C.-43 B.C), Plato, Juan Fern©Łndez de Heredia (1310?-1396), Julius Caesar, Marcus Antonius (83?-30 B.C), Themistocles (ca. 524-ca. 459 B.C), Alcibiades, Cnaeus Marcius Coriolanus, Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, Gaius Sempronius Gracchus (154-121 B.C), Aratus of Sicyon (271-213 B.C), Aristides the Just, Marcus Junius Brutus (85?-42 B.C), Marcus Porcius Cato (234-149 B.C), Aratus Solensis
Time
265-30 B.C., Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C., Republic, 265-30 B.C., To 146 B.C., Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C., To 800, 53-44 B.C., First Triumvirate, 60-53 B.C., Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C., Macedonian Hegemony, 323-281 B.C., Macedonian expansion, 359-323 B.C., To 146 B.C, 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

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