Plutarch

Overview

Works:	4,122 works in 6,974 publications in 6 languages and 34,749 library holdings
Genres:	Biographies History Literature Juvenile works Poetry Criticism, interpretation, etc Portraits
Roles:	Author, Other, Librettist, Writer of accompanying material
Classifications:	DE7, 920

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Plutarch

Plutarch and his times by R. H Barrow( Book )
Gott und die Götter bei Plutarch : Götterbilder - Gottesbilder - Weltbilder by Rainer Hirsch-Luipold( )
A Companion to Plutarch by Mark Beck( )
Emerson's Plutarch by Edmund Grindlay Berry( Book )
The influence of Plutarch in the major European literatures of the eighteenth century by Martha Walling Howard( Book )

Plutarch's "Lives" by Plutarch( )
Plutarch and his intellectual world : essays on Plutarch by Judith Mossman( )
Essays in romantic literature by George Wyndham( Book )
Plutarch in renaissance England, with special reference to Shakespeare by Martha Hale Shackford( Book )
Montaigne et Plutarque by Izabela Konstantinović( Book )
The manuscript-tradition of Plutarchs̕ Aetia Graeca and Aetia romana by J. B Titchener( Book )
Plutarch in the religious and philosophical discourse of late antiquity by Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta( Book )
Intstitutio principis Christia[n]i : saluberrimis referta praeceptis, by Desiderius Erasmus( )
The Platonism of Plutarch, and selected papers by Roger Miller Jones( Book )
Montaigne and the lives of the philosophers : life writing and transversality in the Essais by Alison Calhoun( Book )
Études sur l'humanisme continental en Angleterre à la fin de la renaissance: M. Ficinus, L. Gyraldus, N. Comes, D. Erasmus, G. Xylander, H. Wolfius, H. Stephanus, J. Spondanus by Franck L Schoell( Book )
Plutarque de Chéronée : un philosophe dans le siècle by Jean Sirinelli( Book )
Plutarch und das Neue Testament, ein Beitrag zum Corpus Hellenisticum Novi Testamenti by Helge Almqvist( Book )
Plutarch, his life, his Parallel lives, and his Morals by Richard Chenevix Trench( Book )
Plutarch's lives : in six volumes. Translated from the Greek. To which is prefixed The life of Plutarch, written by Mr. Dryden by Plutarch( )

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Most widely held works by Plutarch

Plutarch's "Lives" by Plutarch( )

385 editions published between 1538 and 2020 in 7 languages and held by 4,273 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Character studies comparing statesmen and generals of pre-Christian Greece and Rome

Dialog über die Liebe = Amatorius by Plutarch( )

7 editions published in 2006 in German and held by 631 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Plutarch gives Plato's philosophy of love a new direction by applying its basic ideas to marital love and by defending the significance of sexuality for personality development and human bonding. This work is presented here with a literary-oriented introduction, the Greek text has been checked carefully, the German translation aims to be readable and is supplemented by detailed notes. Four essays by various authors are included

Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch( Book )

113 editions published between 1578 and 1972 in English and held by 621 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Plutarch's morals by Plutarch( )

15 editions published between 1684 and 1966 in English and held by 476 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Portrays nocturnal animals including a bat, a rat, and a coyote

The Roman questions of Plutarch : a new translation with introductory essays & a running commentary by Plutarch( Book )

4 editions published between 1924 and 1975 in English and held by 336 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Plutarchi Chæronei Opusculum de liberorum institutione : item Isocratis Orationes tres, I. Ad demonicum, II. Ad nicoclem, III. Nicoclis by Plutarch( )

13 editions published between 1574 and 1982 in 3 languages and held by 251 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Ploutarcho tou chairōneōs philosophon l ... Peri ̀toū a'koūéin by Plutarch( )

8 editions published between 1595 and 1982 in Greek, Ancient and held by 246 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Plutarch's Moralia : in seventeen volumes by Plutarch( Book )

11 editions published between 1960 and 1976 in English and Greek, Ancient and held by 242 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Plutarch : the lives of the noble Grecians and Romans : the Dryden translation by Plutarch( Book )

3 editions published between 1952 and 1990 in English and held by 235 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Three [morall] treatises no lesse pleasau[nt] than necessary for all men to read[e,] wherof the one is called the learned prince, the other the fruites of foes, the thyrde the porte of rest by Plutarch( )

12 editions published in 1561 in English and held by 203 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The malice of Herodotus = De malignitate Herodoti by Plutarch( Book )

5 editions published in 1992 in English and held by 191 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Dialogue sur l'amour (Eroticos) by Plutarco( Book )

15 editions published between 1952 and 2005 in French and held by 185 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Olor Iscanus. : a collection of some select poems, and translations by Henry Vaughan( )

4 editions published in 1651 in English and held by 168 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Life of Dion by Plutarchus( Book )

9 editions published between 1952 and 1988 in English and Greek, Ancient and held by 168 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Scholia in librum Plutarchi. Peri paidōn agōgēs, seu De liberorum educatione. Quibus is novâ methodo, quoad verbum & sensum Latinè redditur: Graecismis ac in primis Atticismis, qui hîc frequenter occurrunt, locupletatur: sententiis, è quibus vitae prudenter instituendæ rationem, ac modum acquiras, augetur: phrasibus loquendíque formulis acquirendae copiae, ac clariùs intelligendi textûs causâ ornatur: notis denique passim illustratur, ac ab omni obscuritate, ac difficultate vindicatur. Studio & operâ Georg. Sylvani pan. med by Georgius Sylvanus( )

10 editions published in 1684 in Latin and held by 161 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

V. Cl. D. Ioannis Rainoldj, olim Græcæ linguæ prælectoris in Collegio Corporis Christi apud Oxonienses, orationes duodecim : cum alijs quibusdam opusculis by John Rainolds( )

12 editions published between 1619 and 1628 in Latin and held by 155 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Oratio funebris habita in Templo Beatæ Mariæ Oxon. ab Isaaco Wake -- Joannis Rainoldi ... orationes quinque -- Plutarchi chæronensis : lib. II -- Maximi Tyrii philosophi Platonici : disputationes tres

Plutarch's Lives; the translation called Dryden's by John Dryden( Book )

23 editions published between 1800 and 2018 in English and held by 153 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Ploutarchou tou Chairōneōs ta ēthika. Plutarchi chæronensis Moralia, id est opera, exceptis vitis, reliqua. Græca emendavit, notationem emendationum, et latinam Xylandri interpretationem castigatam, subjunxit, animadversiones explicandis rebus ac verbis, item indices copiosos, adjecit, Daniel Wyttenbach, Hist. Eloq. Litt. Gr. Et Lat. In Illustri Athen. Amstelod. Professor by Plutarch( )

3 editions published in 1795 in Latin and held by 143 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Plutarch's treatise upon the distinction between a friend and flatterer : with remarks. By Thomas Northmore, Esq. M.A.F.S.A by Plutarch( )

2 editions published in 1793 in English and held by 142 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Isocratis ad Demonicum oratio admonitoria. : Item Plutarchi Chæronensis de liberis educandis libellus by Isocrates( )

1 edition published in 1631 in Greek, Ancient and held by 134 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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Audience Level

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Audience level: 0.40 (from 0.09 for Plutarch : ... to 0.86 for Plutarque ...)

Related Identities

Clough, Arthur Hugh 1819-1861 Translator Editor Author
Langhorne, John 1735-1779 Translator Editor
Langhorne, William 1721-1772 Translator Editor
Barrow, R. H. (Reginald Haynes) 1893-1984 Author
Dryden, John 1631-1700 Other Translator Author
Flacelière, Robert 1904-1982 Author Editor Translator
Perrin, Bernadotte Translator Author
Hirsch-Luipold, Rainer 1967- Author Editor
Görgemanns, Herwig Other Author of introduction Editor
Beck, Mark 1958- Author Editor

Associated Subjects

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The malice of Herodotus = De malignitate Herodoti

Covers

Plutarch's Moralia : in seventeen volumes

Plutarch : the lives of the noble Grecians and Romans : the Dryden translation

Plutarch and his intellectual world : essays on Plutarch

Languages

English (690)

Latin (36)

Greek, Ancient (33)

French (28)

German (21)

Swedish (1)