Plutarch

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January 03, 0050 in Chaeronea, Boeotia, Greece

died

January 02, 0127

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History, Biographies & Memoirs, Philosophy

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Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (Greek: Μέστριος Πλούταρχος), c. AD 46 - 120, commonly known in English as Plutarch, was a Roman historian (of Greek ethnicity), biographer, essayist, priest, ambassador, magistrate, and Middle Platonist. Plutarch was born to a prominent family in Chaeronea, Boeotia, a town about twenty miles east of Delphi. His oeuvre consists of the Parallel Lives and the Moralia.

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Average rating: 3.99 · 4,416 ratings · 241 reviews · 536 distinct works

	Lives 1 by Plutarch, Arthur Hugh Clough (Editor), John Dryden (Translator) 3.96 avg rating — 1,227 ratings — published 1840 — 28 editions	My rating:
	The Fall of the Roman Republic: Six Lives by Plutarch, Rex Warner (Translator), Robin Seager (Noted by) 3.92 avg rating — 727 ratings — published 1954 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Lives 2 by Plutarch, Arthur Hugh Clough (Editor), John Dryden (Translator) 4.12 avg rating — 586 ratings — published 1992 — 15 editions	My rating:
	The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives by Plutarch, Ian Scott-Kilvert (Translator) 3.92 avg rating — 327 ratings — published 1960 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Makers of Rome: Nine Lives By Plutarch by Plutarch, Ian Scott-Kilvert (Translator, Introduction) 4.03 avg rating — 293 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Age of Alexander: Nine Greek Lives by Plutarch, Ian Scott-Kilvert (Translator), G.T. Griffith (Introduction) 4.14 avg rating — 244 ratings — published 1973 — 3 editions	My rating:
	On Sparta by Plutarch, Christopher Pelling (Editor), Richard J. A. Talbert (Translator) 3.97 avg rating — 216 ratings — published 1988 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Life of Alexander the Great by Plutarch, Arthur Hugh Clough (Editor), John Dryden (Translator) 3.90 avg rating — 112 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch, Arthur Hugh Clough, John Dryden 3.94 avg rating — 159 ratings — published 1517 — 85 editions	My rating:
	Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Lives by Plutarch, Robin Waterfield, Philip A. Stadter 4.06 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
― Plutarch

tags: curiosity , education , mentoring , mind , thinking

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“I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”
― Plutarch

tags: friendship

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“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”
― Plutarch

tags: inner-strength , inspirational , self-empowerment

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