Plutarch

American  

[ploo-tahrk] / ˈplu tɑrk /

noun

1. a.d. c46–c120, Greek biographer.

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Plutarch British  

/ ˈpluːtɑːk /

noun

1. ?46–?120 _ad , Greek biographer and philosopher, noted for his Parallel Lives of distinguished Greeks and Romans

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Plutarch Cultural  

1. An ancient Greek biographer noted for his ethical insights. He evaluated the character and conduct of many Greek and Roman rulers in his major work, popularly known as Plutarch's Lives.

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Example Sentences

The Greek philosopher Plutarch diagnosed a condition he called dysopia, noting that “we feel ashamed to say no, so we say yes.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Pliny the Elder, Plutarch, and others wrote about black henbane, along with its closely related but less potent relatives, white and yellow henbane.

From Science Magazine

Sitting with those magazines, it was as if he were studying the chess equivalent of Plutarch’s lives of the Roman generals or Vasari’s lives of the artists.

From Literature

It was as if his brain was broken, and he went from writing term papers analyzing Plutarch's "Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans" to finger-painting.

From Salon

He wrote him as a patient, learned man who falls asleep with his nose buried in "Plutarch's Lives," humbled by a divorce and deflated by a paltry paycheck.

From Salon