Facts about Plutarch

Summary

Plutarch was a famous Philosopher from Greece, who lived between 46 AC and 120 AC.

Biography

Plutarch (Greek: Πλούταρχος) was a Greek historian, biographer and essayist.

He was born in the small town Kaeronea, in the Greek region known as Boeotia, probably during the reign of the Roman emperor Claudius. Plutarch traveled widely in the Mediterranean world, including twice to Rome. He had a number of influential Roman friends, including Soscius Senecio Fund and the anus, both important senators and to whom some of his later writings were dedicated. He lived most of his life in Kaeronea, and was introduced to the mysteries of the Greek god Apollo. But his duties as the top of the two priests of Apollo at the Oracle of Delphi (where he was responsible for interpreting the characters of the Pythia or priestess / oracle) apparently occupied little of his time. He lived a very active social and civic life and produced an amazing number of fonts that many are still intact.

In parallelae Vita (Life Narratives of comparison), he writes biographies of famous pairs grouped Romans and Hellenes, such as "Alexander and Caesar." In MORALI, which is a collection of 78 essays, he discusses most issues. In Moralis found, for instance, "If Isis and Osiris", which is the only coherent version of Osirismyten and a central source of Egyptian mythology, and the oldest known reflection on the chicken and the egg.

Our collection contains 36 quotes who is written / told by Plutarch, under the main topics: Words of Wisdom, Friendship, Happiness, Intelligence, Poetry.

Related authors: Claudius, Julius Caesar

Source / external links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutarch