Plutarch
Mestrius Plutarchus (Greek: Πλούταρχος; c. AD 46 – after AD 119), better known in English as Plutarch, was a Greek historian, and writer of biographies and essays.
Plutarch was born into a well-known family in Chaeronea, Boeotia Greece, a town about twenty miles east of Delphi. His works are Parallel Lives and Moralia.
Plutarch Media
Ruins of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, where Plutarch served as one of the priests responsible for interpreting the predictions of the Pythia.
Portrait of a philosopher, and a hermaic stele at the Delphi Archaeological Museum
Plutarch in the Nuremberg Chronicle
A page from the 1470 Ulrich Han printing of Plutarch's Parallel Lives
A bust of the early Greek historian Herodotus, whom Plutarch criticized in "On the Malice of Herodotus"
North's translation of Plutarch
Other websites
- Works by Plutarch at Project Gutenberg
- A biography of Plutarch is included in: Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans at Project Gutenberg, 18th century English translation under the editorship of Dryden (further edited by Arthur Hugh Clough).
- Works of Plutarch in etext at the University of Adelaide Library Archived 2008-11-09 at the Wayback Machine.
- 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)
- Plutarch's Isis and Osiris Archived 2008-09-14 at the Wayback Machine