Plutarch
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Plutarch was a Greek and later Roman Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. He is known primarily for his Parallel Lives, a series
2nd-century bust from Delphi sometimes identified as Plutarch
Portrait of a philosopher alongside a hermaic stele dedicated to Plutarch at the Delphi Archaeological Museum
Modern portrait at Chaeronea, based on the bust from Delphi
Parallel Lives
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The Parallel Lives is a series of 48 biographies of famous men written in Greek by the Greco-Roman philosopher, historian, and Apollonian priest Plutarch, probably at the beginning of the second centu
Plutarch
…later Roman Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. He is known primarily for his Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of illustrious Greeks and Romans, and Moralia, a collection of essays and speeches. Upon becoming a Roman citizen, he was…
1362 manuscript by Byzantine scholar Manuel Tzycandyles
Third Volume of a 1727 edition of Plutarch's Lives, printed by Jacob Tonson