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Plutarch
Plutarch
c. 46 CE–c. 120 CE · Chaeronea
Plutarch (c. 46 – c. 120 CE) was a Greek philosopher, biographer, and essayist from Chaeronea in Boeotia. He is best known for his Parallel Lives, paired biographies of prominent Greek and Roman figures (including the Life of Eumenes), and for the Moralia, a wide-ranging collection of ethical, philosophical, and antiquarian essays, among them Mulierum virtutes ("On the Bravery of Women"). A Middle Platonist, he engaged critically with Stoic and Epicurean ideas and wrote on religion, ethics, and natural questions. He held Roman citizenship and served for many years as a priest at the oracle of Delphi.
“For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.”
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What they did here
Born c.46 CE in Chaeronea, Boeotia, to a prominent local family; he remained devoted to his small home town his whole life, as he states in his works (Demosthenes 2).
About Chaeronea
A small town in Boeotia famous twice over—as the battlefield where Philip II of Macedon crushed Greek liberty in 338 BCE, and as the lifelong home of the biographer and Platonist priest Plutarch.
In the same place & time
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Sages whose lives overlapped with Plutarch’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
Across the traditions
- John the Apostle· Rome
- Berenice· Rome
- Josephus· Rome
- Rabbi Yehoshua· Rome
- Rabban Gamliel of Yavneh· Rome
- Eleazar ben Azaryah· Rome
- Pope St. Sixtus I· Rome
- Pope St. Alexander I· Rome
- Pope St. Evaristus· Rome
- Pope St. Anacletus· Rome
- Pope St. Linus· Rome
- Ignatius of Antioch· Rome
- Pope Clement of Rome· Rome
- Pope St. Hyginus· Athens
- Quadratus of Athens· Athens
In the same tradition
Curtius Rufus, Quintus, Pliny, the Elder, Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius, Musonius Rufus, Quintilian, Titus, Martial, Valerius Flaccus, Gaius, Statius, P. Papinius (Publius Papinius), Domitian, Epictetus, Juvenal, Tacitus, Cornelius, Pliny, the Younger, Suetonius, Florus, Lucius Annaeus, Favorinus of Arelate, Appian of Alexandria
The world in their lifetime
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Plutarch’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Works(137)
Mulierum virtutes
Chaeronea · 120
De Vitioso Pudore
Chaeronea · 120
Agis and Cleomenes
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De sollertia animalium
Chaeronea · 120
Cimon
Chaeronea · 120
Demetrius
Chaeronea · 120
Brutus
Chaeronea · 120
Tiberius and Caius Gracchus
Chaeronea · 120
An seni respublica gerenda sit
Chaeronea · 120
Nicias
Chaeronea · 120
Bruta animalia ratione uti
Chaeronea · 120
Quaestiones Romanae
Chaeronea · 120
Comparison of Demetrius and Antony
Chaeronea · 120
An Recte Dictum Sit Latenter Esse Vivendum
Chaeronea · 120
Septem sapientium convivium
Chaeronea · 120
Comparationis Aristophanis et Menandri compendium
Chaeronea · 120
Crassus
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Pompey
Chaeronea · 120
De gloria Atheniensium
Chaeronea · 120
Caius Marcius Coriolanus
Chaeronea · 120
De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos
Chaeronea · 120
Pyrrhus
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Comparison of Lysander and Sulla
Chaeronea · 120
Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata [attributed]
Chaeronea · 120
De vitando aere alieno
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Comparison of Timoleon and Aemilius
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De Invidia et Odio
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De recta ratione audiendi
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Alcibiades
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Quaestiones Graecae
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Marcus Cato
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Comparison of Sertorius and Eumenes
Chaeronea · 120
Sulla
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Artaxerxes
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Consolatio Ad Uxorem
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Praecepta gerendae reipublicae
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Lysander
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Romulus
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Comparison of Pelopidas and Marcellus
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De primo frigido
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De Iside et Osiride
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Cato the Younger
Chaeronea · 120
Marcellus
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De fraterno amore
Chaeronea · 120
De Superstitione
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Pericles
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De cohibenda ira
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De Facie Quae in orbe Lunae Apparet
Chaeronea · 120
De Heroditi malignate
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De exilio
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Comparison of Pericles and Fabius Maximus
Chaeronea · 120
Agesilaus
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Amatoriae Narrationes
Chaeronea · 120
De Cupiditate Divitiarum
Chaeronea · 120
De esu carnium II
Chaeronea · 120
Alexander
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An Virtus Doceri Possit
Chaeronea · 120
De esu carnium I
Chaeronea · 120
Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat
Chaeronea · 120
Caius Marius
Chaeronea · 120
Amatorius
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Demosthenes
Chaeronea · 120
De Tranquillitate Animi
Chaeronea · 120
Lucullus
Chaeronea · 120
Camillus
Chaeronea · 120
Conjugalia Praecepta
Chaeronea · 120
Comparison of Nicias and Crassus
Chaeronea · 120
Maxime Cum Principibus Viris Philosopho Esse Disserendum
Chaeronea · 120
Cicero
Chaeronea · 120
Comparison of Alcibiades and Coriolanus
Chaeronea · 120
Themistocles
Chaeronea · 120
Adversus Coloten
Chaeronea · 95
Solon
Chaeronea · 120
Apophthegmata Laconica
Chaeronea · 120
De curiositate
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De unius in republica dominatione, populari statu, et paucorum imperio
Chaeronea · 120
De E apud Delphos
Chaeronea · 120
Timoleon
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Platonicae quaestiones
Chaeronea · 120
Ad principem ineruditum
Chaeronea · 95
Compendium argumenti Stoicos absurdiora poetis dicere
Chaeronea · 120
Aratus
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De Genio Socratis
Chaeronea · 120
Quaestiones Convivales
Chaeronea · 120
Pelopidas
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Comparison of Dion and Brutus
Chaeronea · 120
Comparison of Lycurgus and Numa
Chaeronea · 120
De animae procreatione in Timaeo
Chaeronea · 120
De Defectu Oraculorum
Chaeronea · 120
Instituta Laconia
Chaeronea · 120
De Virtute Morali
Chaeronea · 120
Philopoemen
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Comparison of Lucullus and Cimon
Chaeronea · 120
Quomodo quis suos in virtute sentiat profectus
Chaeronea · 120
Otho
Chaeronea · 120
De Se Ipsum Citra Invidiam Laudando
Chaeronea · 120
De Sera Numinis Vindicta
Chaeronea · 120
Aemilius Paulus
Chaeronea · 95
Fabius Maximus
Chaeronea · 120
An vitiositas ad infelicitatem sufficia
Chaeronea · 120
Comparison of Demosthenes and Cicero
Chaeronea · 120
Comparison of Solon and Publicola
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Antony
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Sertorius
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De tuenda sanitate praecepta
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Epitome libri de animae procreatione in Timaeo
Chaeronea · 120
Comparison of Aristides and Marcus Cato
Chaeronea · 120
Comparison of Agesilaus and Pompey
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Aristides
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Titus Flamininus
Chaeronea · 120
Comparison of Philopoemen and Titus
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Theseus
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De Stoicorum repugnantiis
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Lycurgus
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De Amore Prolis
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Dion
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De capienda ex inimicis utilitate
Chaeronea · 120
Galba
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Comparison of Theseus and Romulus
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De Pythiae oraculis
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De amicorum multitudine
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De Garrulitate
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Phocion
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De virtute et vitio
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De fortuna
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Non Posse Suaviter Vivi Secundum Epicurum
Chaeronea · 120
Caesar
Chaeronea · 120
Comparison of Agis and Cleomenes and the Gracchi
Chaeronea · 120
Publicola
Chaeronea · 120
De fortuna Romanorum
Chaeronea · 120
Animine an corporis affectiones sint peiores
Chaeronea · 120
Numa
Chaeronea · 120
Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur
Chaeronea · 120
Lacaenarum Apophthegmata
Chaeronea · 120
De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute
Chaeronea · 120
Quaestiones Naturales
Chaeronea · 120