biography
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Plutarch
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Gr Ploutarchos
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pronunciation:
[plootah(r)k]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.46–c.120)
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| biography:
| Historian, biographer, and philosopher, born in Chaeronea, Boeotia, Greece. He studied in Athens and made several visits to Rome, where he gave public lectures in philosophy. His extant writings comprise Opera moralia, a series of essays on ethical, political, religious, and other topics, and several historical works, notably Bioi paralleloi (Parallel Lives), a gallery of 46 portraits of the great characters of preceding ages, each book consisting of a Greek and a Roman figure, sharing some resemblance. North's translation of his work into English (1579) was the source of Shakespeare's Roman plays. |
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