Plutarch

Overview

Works:	3,916 works in 7,829 publications in 10 languages and 53,112 library holdings
Genres:	Biography Biographies Sources History Juvenile works Portraits Poetry
Subject Headings:
Roles:	Author, Other, Contributor, Writer of accompanying material, Librettist
Classifications:	DE7, 920.038

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Plutarch

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 : exploring virtue and vice by Tim Duff( Book )
Plutarch's Moralia by Plutarch( Book )
Essays in romantic literature by George Wyndham( Book )

Plutarch on Sparta by Plutarch( Book )
Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch( Book )
A commentary on Plutarch's life of Agesilaos : response to sources in the presentation of character by D. R Shipley( Book )
The reception of Plutarch's Lives in fifteenth-century Italy by Marianne Pade( Book )
Montaigne et Plutarque by Izabela Konstantinović( Book )
Essays on Greek literature by Robert Yelverton Tyrrell( Book )
Plutarch in renaissance England, with special reference to Shakespeare by Martha Hale Shackford( Book )
The passionate statesman : Eros and politics in Plutarch's Lives by Jeffrey Beneker( 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 )
The manuscript-tradition of Plutarchs̕ Aetia Graeca and Aetia romana by J. B Titchener( Book )
Georgii Gemisti Plethonis Opuscula de historia Graeca by George Gemistus Plethon( Book )
Plutarch's Quyete of mynde by Plutarch( Book )
Hesiodic voices : studies in the ancient reception of Hesiod's Works and days by R. L Hunter( Book )
Gott und die Götter bei Plutarch : Götterbilder - Gottesbilder - Weltbilder by Rainer Hirsch-Luipold( Book )
Plutarch's Morals. Theosophical essays by PLUTARCH PLUTARCH( Book )

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Most widely held works by Plutarch

Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch( Book )

617 editions published between 1684 and 2014 in 9 languages and held by 4,449 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Offers biographies of Greek and Roman leaders and compares their personal qualities and accomplishments

Plutarch's Moralia by Plutarch( Book )

96 editions published between 1927 and 2003 in 3 languages and held by 1,026 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The age of Alexander: nine Greek lives by Plutarch( Book )

15 editions published between 1973 and 2012 in English and held by 816 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This title includes textual and historical notes that supplement a segment of Plutarch's "Lives" which covers the rise of Macedonia

Selected lives and essays by Plutarch( Book )

4 editions published in 1951 in English and held by 638 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Plutarch's lives of Themistocles, Pericles, Aristides, Alcibiades, and Coriolanus, Demosthenes, and Cicero, Cæsar and Antony by Plutarch( Book )

16 editions published between 1909 and 1937 in English and Undetermined and held by 598 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Con retrato de alcibiades

Fall of the Roman Republic: Marius, Sulla, Crassus, Pompey, Caesar, Cicero: six lives by Plutarch( Book )

39 editions published between 1958 and 2005 in English and held by 481 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Copies 1 and 2 in circulation

Ideal commonwealths; Plutarch's Lycurgus, More's Utopia, Bacon's New Atlantis, Campanella's City of the sun and a fragment of Hall's Mundus alter et idem by Henry Morley( Book )

33 editions published between 1885 and 2010 in English and held by 359 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Roman questions of Plutarch; a new translation with introductory essays & a running commentary by H. J Rose( Book )

4 editions published between 1924 and 1975 in English and held by 341 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Plutarch on Sparta by Plutarch( Book )

3 editions published in 1988 in English and held by 331 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Through his Lives of Sparta's leaders and his recording of memorable Spartan Sayings, Plutarch depicts a people who lived frugally and mastered their emotions in all aspects of life, who disposed of unhealthy babies in a deep chasm, introduced a gruelling regimen of military training for boys, and treated their serfs brutally. Plutarch's writing brings to life the personalities and achievements of Sparta. Revised edition includes a new introduction, a new essay on Plutarch, notes, a glossary, updated further reading, and an index

Vitae parallelae by Plutarch( Book )

40 editions published between 1914 and 2000 in 4 languages and held by 324 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Plutarch's De Iside et Osiride by Plutarch( Book )

3 editions published in 1970 in English and held by 308 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Plutarchi Moralia by Plutarch( Book )

54 editions published between 1526 and 2000 in 6 languages and held by 299 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Essays by Plutarch( Book )

6 editions published between 1881 and 2006 in English and held by 282 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Ten famous lives by Plutarch( Book )

6 editions published between 1962 and 1965 in English and held by 282 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Plutarch's Morals. Theosophical essays by PLUTARCH PLUTARCH( Book )

17 editions published between 1882 and 1908 in English and held by 228 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The philosophy commonly called The morals by Plutarch( Book )

18 editions published between 1657 and 1985 in English and held by 212 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Plutarch's Morals: by Plutarch( Book )

28 editions published between 1691 and 1905 in English and Undetermined and held by 78 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Pythici dialogi by Plutarch( Book )

11 editions published in 1997 in 3 languages and held by 70 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

De E apud Delphos - De Pythiae oraculis - De defectu oraculorum

Plutarch's Morals by way of abstract by Plutarch( Book )

11 editions published in 1707 in English and held by 29 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 by Plutarch( Book )

in 4 languages and held by 16 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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Audience Level

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Audience level: 0.43 (from 0.16 for Selected l ... to 0.77 for Montaigne ...)

Related Identities

Clough, Arthur Hugh 1819-1861 Translator Editor
Dryden, John 1631-1700 Translator
Langhorne, John 1735-1779 Translator Editor
Langhorne, William 1721-1772 Translator Editor
Cicero, Marcus Tullius Author
Perrin, Bernadotte Translator Editor Author
Themistocles approximately 524 B.C.-approximately 459 B.C.
Scott-Kilvert, Ian Translator Editor
Aristides approximately 530 B.C.-approximately 468 B.C.
Demosthenes Author

Associated Subjects

Agesilaus (Plutarch) Agesilaus--II,--King of Sparta Alcibiades Antonius, Marcus, Aristides, Art Art appreciation Biography Biography as a literary form Caesar, Julius Cicero, Marcus Tullius Coriolanus, Cnaeus Marcius Demosthenes Emerson, Ralph Waldo, England English literature--Early modern Ethics Ethics, Ancient European literature European literature--Greek influences French poetry Greece Greece--Sparta (Extinct city) Greek literature Greek prose literature Historiography Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Isis--(Egyptian deity) Italy Kings and rulers Literature Lives (Plutarch) Manners and customs Osiris--(Egyptian deity) Pericles, Plutarch Poems (Shakespeare, William) Religion Renaissance Rhetoric, Ancient Romances Romanticism Rome (Empire) Scott, Walter, Shakespeare, William, Technique Themistocles, Utopias Vice in literature Virtue in literature

Languages

English (1,019)

Greek, Ancient (64)

Latin (28)

German (23)

Greek, Modern (12)

French (11)

Chinese (3)

Multiple languages (2)

Italian (1)

Miscellaneous languages (1)

Covers

Fall of the Roman Republic: Marius, Sulla, Crassus, Pompey, Caesar, Cicero: six lives