[Revised entry by George Karamanolis on December 5, 2024.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography]
Plutarch of Chaeronea in Boeotia (ca. 45 – 120 CE) was a Platonist philosopher, best known to the general public as author of his “Parallel Lives” of paired Greek and Roman statesmen and military leaders. He was a voluminous writer, author also of a collection of “Moralia” or “Ethical Essays,” mostly in dialogue format, many of them devoted to philosophical topics, but not at all limited to ethics….

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