Plutarch facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Plutarch
Modern bust at Chaeronea intended to represent Plutarch, based on a bust from Delphi once identified as Plutarch, but now no longer
Born	c. AD 46 Chaeronea, Boeotia
Died	c. AD 120 (aged 73–74) Delphi, Phocis
Occupation	Biographer, essayist, philosopher, priest, ambassador, magistrate
Subject	Biography, various
Literary movement	Middle Platonism, Hellenistic literature

Mestrius Plutarchus (Greek: Πλούταρχος; c. 46 - 127), better known in English as Plutarch, was a Greek historian, and writer of biographies and essays.

Moralia, 1531

Plutarch was born into a well-known family in Chaeronea, Boeotia Greece, a town about twenty miles east of Delphi. His works are the Parallel Lives and the Moralia.

Images for kids

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  Ruins of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, where Plutarch served as one of the priests responsible for interpreting the predictions of the Pythia.

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  Portrait of a philosopher, and a hermaic stele at the Delphi Archaeological Museum

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  Plutarch in the Nuremberg Chronicle

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  A page from the 1470 Ulrich Han printing of Plutarch's Parallel Lives

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  A bust of the early Greek historian Herodotus, whom Plutarch criticized in On the Malice of Herodotus

See also

• In Spanish: Plutarco