Plutarch

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born

January 01, 0046

died

January 01, 2020

gender

male

place of birth

Chaeronea, Boeotia, Greece

genre

Biographies & Memoirs, History

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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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avg rating: 4.06 | 61 reviews | 627 ratings | 138 distinct works

	Plutarch's Lives Volume 1 (Modern Library Classics) by Plutarch avg rating 4.12 — 211 ratings — published 2001	my rating:
	Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (Modern Library Classics) by Plutarch avg rating 4.24 — 181 ratings — published 2001	my rating:
	The Fall of the Roman Republic: Six Lives (Penguin Classics) by Plutarch avg rating 3.92 — 107 ratings — published 2006 2 editions	my rating:
	The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives (Paperback) by Plutarch avg rating 3.91 — 96 ratings — published 1960 2 editions	my rating:
	The Makers of Rome (Penguin Classics) by Plutarch avg rating 3.93 — 66 ratings — published 1965	my rating:
	On Sparta (Penguin Classics) by Plutarch avg rating 3.98 — 52 ratings — published 2005 2 editions	my rating:
	The Age of Alexander: Nine Greek Lives (Penguin Classics, L286) by Plutarch avg rating 4.40 — 55 ratings — published 1973 2 editions	my rating:
	The Life of Alexander the Great (Modern Library Classics) by Plutarch avg rating 4.12 — 39 ratings — published 2004 2 editions	my rating:
	Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Lives (Oxford World's Classics) by Plutarch avg rating 4.33 — 29 ratings — published 2000	my rating:
	Lives of the Noble Greeks (Paperback) by Plutarch avg rating 4.00 — 25 ratings — published 1999	my rating: