What is Plutarch?
[[File:Plutarchus - Moralia. De placitis philosophorum, 1531 - 3020537.tif|thumb|''Moralia'', 1531]] '''Mestrius Plutarchus''' ({{lang-el|Πλούταρχος}}; ''c.'' AD 46 – after AD 119), better known in English as '''Plutarch''', was a [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] [[historian]], and writer of [[biographer|biographies]] and [[essayist|essays]]. Plutarch was born into a well-known family in ''Chaeronea'', ''[[Boeotia]]'' [[Greece]], a town about twenty miles east of [[Delphi, Greece|Delphi]]. His works are ''[[Parallel Lives]]'' and ''[[Moralia]]''. == Other websites == {{wikiquote-en}} * {{gutenberg author| id=Plutarch | name=Plutarch}} ** A [http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/0/3/14033/14033-h/14033-h.htm#LIFE_OF_PLUTARCH biography of Plutarch] is included in: {{gutenberg | no=674 | name=Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans}}, 18th century [[English language|English]] translation under the editorship of Dryden (further edited by Arthur Hugh Clough). * [http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/p/plutarch/ Works of Plutarch in etext at the University of Adelaide Library] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081109055132/http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/p/plutarch/ |date=2008-11-09 }}. * [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/home.html Plutarch page at LacusCurtius] (20th century English translation of most of the ''Lives'', ''On the Fortune or Virtue of Alexander'', ''On the Fortune of the Romans'', ''Roman Questions'', and other excerpts of the ''Moralia'') * [http://altreligion.about.com/library/texts/bl_isisandosiris.htm Plutarch's Isis and Osiris] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080914104237/http://altreligion.about.com/library/texts/bl_isisandosiris.htm |date=2008-09-14 }} {{Social and political philosophy}} {{Authority control}} [[Category:40s births]] [[Category:120s deaths]] [[Category:Ancient Greek historians]] [[Category:Ancient Greek writers]] [[Category:Biographers]] {{bio-stub}}