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Plutarch
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![]() Modern bust at Chaeronea intended to represent Plutarch, based on a bust from Delphi once identified as Plutarch, but now no longer
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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.
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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A bust of the early Greek historian Herodotus, whom Plutarch criticized in On the Malice of Herodotus
See also
- In Spanish: Plutarco
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