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Mestrius Plutarchus (Greek: Πλούταρχος; c. 46 AD - 120 AD), better known in English as Plutarch, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, an Middle Platonist. Plutarch was born to a prominent family in Chaeronea, Boeotia [Greece], a town about twenty miles east of Delphi. His oeuvre consists of the Parallel Lives and the Moralia.

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  • Born around 46 A.D., he spent time in both Greece & Rome & wrote to encourage respect between the 2 cultures
  • John Dryden in 1683 was the first to use the term "biography"--appropriately, while writing about this Greek
  • He dedicated his "Parallel Lives" to Sosius Senecio, a friend of the emperor
  • Known for his "Parallel Lives", he also wrote treatises on "Friends and Flatterers" & "Curiosity"
  • This Greek biographer of "Parallel Lives" suggested Brutus was Julius Caesar's illegitimate son
  • This Greek biographer's own "life" included being granted a priesthood at Delphi for life
  • This Greek historian's "Parallel Lives" analyzes the character of well-known Greeks & Romans
  • This Roman historian paired ancient heroes in his "Parallel Lives"
  • Without my "Parallel Lives", you'd know a lot less about our history
  • In "Consolatio ad Uxorem" this Greek author of "Lives" attempts to console his wife on the death of their daughter
  • (Adam Sandler shills for his Christmas release.) To show kids the world of Ancient Rome the way I do in my new movie "Bedtime Stories", try the children's version of this author's "Parallel Lives"

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