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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Early works to 1800, Biography, Ethics, History, Generals, Translations into English, Kings and rulers, Statesmen, Greece, biography, Ancient Ethics, Rome, biography, Philosophy, Rome, Classical biography, Greek literature, History and criticism, Biographies, Plutarch, Greek essays, Translations into Italian, Education, Isis (Egyptian deity), Osiris (Egyptian deity), Ancient History, Ancient PhilosophyPlaces
Greece, Rome, Rome (Empire), Athens (Greece), Grèce, Athens, Italy, Macedonia, Rome (Italy), Sicily (Italy), Sparta, Sparta (Extinct city), America, Delphi (Extinct city), Grecia, Grecja, Greece (Extinct city), Historiography, India, Rzym (państwo)People
Plutarch, Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C), Alcibiades, Marcus Antonius (83?-30 B.C), Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pericles (499-429 B.C), Themistocles (ca. 524-ca. 459 B.C), Demosthenes, Cnaeus Marcius Coriolanus, Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, Aratus of Sicyon (271-213 B.C), Aristides the Just, Gaius Sempronius Gracchus (154-121 B.C), Nicias, Epicurus, Marcus Junius Brutus (85?-42 B.C), Marcus Porcius Cato (234-149 B.C), Osiris (Egyptian deity), Aratus Solensis, Herodotus, Homer, Isis (Egyptian deity), Marcus Licinius Crassus, Marcus Salvius Otho Emperor of Rome (32-69)Time
Republic, 265-30 B.C., Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C., Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C., To 146 B.C., To 800, 265-30 B.C., 53-44 B.C., First Triumvirate, 60-53 B.C., Macedonian Hegemony, 323-281 B.C., Macedonian expansion, 359-323 B.C., Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C., To 146 B.C, To 1500, To 324 B.C.ID Numbers
- OLID: OL58120A
- ISNI: 0000000123412305
- VIAF: 268955446
- Wikidata: Q41523
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q41523
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- 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
- Plutchard