Who is Plutarch?((10 POINTS))?

Question

Another question from my english sheet. Hope i get help with it!!!




P.S.has to do with shakespeare!!!

Answer 1

Mestrius Plutarchus (Greek: Πλούταρχος; c. 46 - 127), better known in English as Plutarch, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist.
Plutarch's writings had enormous influence on English and French literature. In his plays, Shakespeare paraphrased parts of Thomas North's translation of selected Lives, and occasionally quoted from them verbatim.

Answer 2

Plutarch was a Greek philosopher and author and really the answer is too long to type myself but the link I'm providing in the source has the entire lifeline and information on him.

Answer 3

Plutarch, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutarch
http://www.e-classics.com/plutarch.htm

Answer 4

Plutarch, was a Greek historian

Answer 5

Definitions of Plutarch:
noun: Greek biographer who wrote Parallel Lives (46?-120 AD)
A website that discusses in detail about this biographer and writer can be found here:
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9060464/Plutarch

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Answer 6

Born in 46 AD[a] in the small town of Chaeronea, in the Greek region known as Boeotia. The name of Plutarch's father has not been preserved, but it was probably Nikarchus, from the common habit of Greek families to repeat a name in alternate generations. His family was wealthy. His brothers Timon and Lamprias are frequently mentioned in his essays and dialogues, where Timon is spoken of in the most affectionate terms. Rualdus, in his 1624 work Life of Plutarchus, recovered the name of Plutarch's wife, Timoxena, from internal evidence afforded by his writings. A letter is still extant, addressed by Plutarch to his wife, bidding her not give way to excessive grief at the death of their two year old daughter, who was named Timoxena after her mother. Interestingly, he hinted at a belief in reincarnation in that letter of consolation.

The exact number of his sons is not certain, although two of them, Autobulus and second Plutarch, are often mentioned. Plutarch's treatise on the Timaeus of Plato is dedicated to them, and the marriage of his son Autobulus is the occasion of one of the dinner-parties recorded in the 'Table Talk.' Another person, Soklarus, is spoken of in terms which seem to imply that he was Plutarch's son, but this is nowhere definitely stated. His treatise on Marriage Questions, addressed to Eurydike and Pollianus, seems to speak of her as having been recently an inmate of his house, but without enabling us to form an opinion whether she was his daughter or not.[2]

Plutarch studied mathematics and philosophy at the Academy of Athens under Ammonius from 66 to 67.[3]. He had a number of influential friends, including Soscius Senecio and Fundanus, both important senators, to whom

Answer 7

Its the elliptical orbit of Pluto around the sun.

Answer 8

Oooh ten points, ten points!

Just ask next time. We don't need a carrot dangled in our faces like we're some donkeys.

Answer 9

http://who2.com/ask/plutarch.html


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


http://www.utexas.edu/depts/classics/chaironeia/