plutarch

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n.pr. Plütark
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The classical historian and essayist Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (46-120 CE). Often used as a byword for a biographer, to suggest that the writer is especially skilled or has other attributes associated with Plutarch
Any specific edition of a work by Plutarch, often specifically Plutarch's Lives
an ancient Greek historian who wrote about famous Greek and Roman politicians and military leaders in a book known as Plutarch's Lives. Plays by William Shakespeare that are set in ancient times, such as Julius Caesar, are based on Plutarch's writings (?46-?120 AD). 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. His literary output was immense, but his popularity rests primarily on his Parallel Lives, a series of pairs of biographies of famous Greeks and Romans. Displaying impressive learning and research, the Lives exhibit noble deeds and characters and provide model patterns of behaviour. The Moralia, or Ethica, contains his surviving writings on ethical, religious, physical, political, and literary topics. His works profoundly influenced the evolution of the essay, biography, and historical writing in 16th-19th-century Europe, especially through translations such as Sir Thomas North's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes (1579), William Shakespeare's source for his Roman history plays
{i} biographer of ancient Greece
A Greek historian and essayist
Greek biographer who wrote Parallel Lives (46?-120 AD)
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    [ 'plü-"tärk ] (biographical name.) From Ancient Greek Πλούταρχος (Ploutarkhos).