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Epistemology, ethics, history, metaphysics. Plutarch ( / ˈpluːtɑːrk /; Greek: Πλούταρχος, Ploútarchos; Koinē Greek: [ˈplúːtarkʰos]; c. AD 46 – after AD 119) [1] was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, [2] historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi.
Jul 3, 2024 · 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.
Sep 7, 2010 · Here is an overview of Plutarch's works, to give a sense of his conception of philosophy and of what in Platonist philosophy especially he valued. Plutarch wrote relatively little in the field of “logic” in the ancient sense ( logikê ), which includes philosophy of language and epistemology.
Feb 25, 2016 · L. Mestrius Plutarchus, better known simply as Plutarch, was a Greek writer and philosopher who lived between c. 45-50 CE and c. 120-125 CE. A prodigious and hugely influential writer, he is now most famous for his biographical works in his Parallel Lives which present an entertaining history of some of the most significant figures ...
Plutarch , Greek Plutarchos Latin Plutarchus, (born ad 46, Chaeronea, Boeotia—died after 119), Greek biographer and author. The son of a biographer and philosopher, Plutarch studied in Athens, taught in Rome, traveled widely, and made many important friends before returning to his native town in Boeotia.
May 23, 2018 · Plutarch >The Greek biographer, historian, essayist, and moralist Plutarch (ca. 46-ca. >120) has been described as one of the most influential writers who ever >lived. Paradoxically, Plutarch the man who was the biographer of many others, had no biographer except for a scant notice in Suidas.
The statesman Plutarch calls the “last of the Greeks,” Philopoemen, witnessed the Greek cities fall finally under the sway of Rome, while Antony, the last of Plutarch’s Romans, saw the republic give way to Octavian’s empire.
Jul 3, 2024 · Plutarch - Biographer, Historian, Philosopher: Plutarch’s later influence has been profound. He was loved and respected in his own time and in later antiquity; his Lives inspired a rhetorician, Aristides, and a historian, Arrian, to write similar comparisons, and a copy accompanied the emperor Marcus Aurelius when he took the field ...
Biography. 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 was born and lived out his life in the little town of Chaeronea, Greece, and became a Roman citizen and celebrity. Polymath, Laconophile, best-selling biographer, and priest of Apollo, he is best known for his Parallel Lives, a work of enduring popularity and influence down the ages.
