Eumenes
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Plutarch
Plutarch
46 CE–120 CE · Chaeronea
Greek essayist and biographer of Chaeronea; his Parallel Lives and Moralia profoundly shaped later ideas of character, ethics, and the lessons of history.
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ChaeroneaBoeotia (Greece)
What they did here
Born c.46 CE in Chaeronea, Boeotia, to a prominent local family; he remained devoted to his small home town his whole life, as he states in his works (Demosthenes 2).
About Chaeronea
A small town in Boeotia famous twice over—as the battlefield where Philip II of Macedon crushed Greek liberty in 338 BCE, and as the lifelong home of the biographer and Platonist priest Plutarch.
Works(137)
Mulierum virtutes
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De Vitioso Pudore
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Agis and Cleomenes
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De sollertia animalium
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Cimon
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Demetrius
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Brutus
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Tiberius and Caius Gracchus
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An seni respublica gerenda sit
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Nicias
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Bruta animalia ratione uti
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Quaestiones Romanae
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Comparison of Demetrius and Antony
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An Recte Dictum Sit Latenter Esse Vivendum
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Septem sapientium convivium
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Comparationis Aristophanis et Menandri compendium
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Crassus
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Pompey
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De gloria Atheniensium
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Caius Marcius Coriolanus
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De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos
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Pyrrhus
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Comparison of Lysander and Sulla
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Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata [attributed]
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De vitando aere alieno
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Comparison of Timoleon and Aemilius
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De Invidia et Odio
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De recta ratione audiendi
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Alcibiades
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Quaestiones Graecae
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Marcus Cato
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Comparison of Sertorius and Eumenes
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Sulla
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Artaxerxes
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Consolatio Ad Uxorem
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Praecepta gerendae reipublicae
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Lysander
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Romulus
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Comparison of Pelopidas and Marcellus
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De primo frigido
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De Iside et Osiride
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Cato the Younger
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Marcellus
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De fraterno amore
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De Superstitione
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Pericles
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De cohibenda ira
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De Facie Quae in orbe Lunae Apparet
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De Heroditi malignate
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De exilio
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Comparison of Pericles and Fabius Maximus
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Agesilaus
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Amatoriae Narrationes
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De Cupiditate Divitiarum
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De esu carnium II
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Alexander
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An Virtus Doceri Possit
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De esu carnium I
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Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat
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Caius Marius
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Amatorius
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Demosthenes
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De Tranquillitate Animi
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Lucullus
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Camillus
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Conjugalia Praecepta
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Comparison of Nicias and Crassus
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Maxime Cum Principibus Viris Philosopho Esse Disserendum
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Cicero
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Comparison of Alcibiades and Coriolanus
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Themistocles
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Adversus Coloten
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Solon
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Apophthegmata Laconica
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De curiositate
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De unius in republica dominatione, populari statu, et paucorum imperio
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De E apud Delphos
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Timoleon
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Platonicae quaestiones
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Ad principem ineruditum
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Compendium argumenti Stoicos absurdiora poetis dicere
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Aratus
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De Genio Socratis
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Quaestiones Convivales
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Pelopidas
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Comparison of Dion and Brutus
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Comparison of Lycurgus and Numa
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De animae procreatione in Timaeo
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De Defectu Oraculorum
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Instituta Laconia
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De Virtute Morali
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Philopoemen
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Comparison of Lucullus and Cimon
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Quomodo quis suos in virtute sentiat profectus
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Otho
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De Se Ipsum Citra Invidiam Laudando
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De Sera Numinis Vindicta
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Aemilius Paulus
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Fabius Maximus
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An vitiositas ad infelicitatem sufficia
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Comparison of Demosthenes and Cicero
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Comparison of Solon and Publicola
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Antony
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Sertorius
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De tuenda sanitate praecepta
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Epitome libri de animae procreatione in Timaeo
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Comparison of Aristides and Marcus Cato
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Comparison of Agesilaus and Pompey
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Aristides
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Titus Flamininus
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Comparison of Philopoemen and Titus
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Theseus
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De Stoicorum repugnantiis
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Lycurgus
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De Amore Prolis
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Dion
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De capienda ex inimicis utilitate
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Galba
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Comparison of Theseus and Romulus
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De Pythiae oraculis
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De amicorum multitudine
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De Garrulitate
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Phocion
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De virtute et vitio
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De fortuna
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Non Posse Suaviter Vivi Secundum Epicurum
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Caesar
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Comparison of Agis and Cleomenes and the Gracchi
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Publicola
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De fortuna Romanorum
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Animine an corporis affectiones sint peiores
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Numa
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Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur
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Lacaenarum Apophthegmata
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De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute
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Quaestiones Naturales
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