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
about this author
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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