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  1. Plutarch
    [crater] Plutarch is a lunar impact crater that lies near the north-northeastern limb of the Moon, just to the south of the irregular crater Seneca. To the southeast is the flooded crater Cannon. The proximity of this crater to the limb causes it to appear foreshortened when viewed from the ...
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  2. Plutarch
    (45-120 CE) Greek historian and biographer; Plutarch enjoyed a prominent social and political position and had influential friends; he was one of the two priests who interpreted the Pythia's words at the Oracle at Delphi; his most famous writing was entitled Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans and ...
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  3. Plutarch
    [n] - the Greek biographer who wrote Parallel Lives (a collection of biographies of famous Greeks and Romans that Shakespeare used in writing his plays)
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  4. Plutarch
    (c.AD 46-c. 120) Greek biographer and essayist. He is best remembered for his Lives, a collection of short biographies of famous figures from Greek and Roman history arranged in contrasting pairs (for example,...
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  5. Plutarch
    noun Greek biographer who wrote Parallel Lives (46?-120 AD)
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  6. Plutarch
    biographer and author whose works strongly influenced the evolution of the essay, the biography, and historical writing in Europe from the 16th to ... [19 related articles]
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  7. Plutarch
    Plutarch (Pronunciation-needed; Ancient Greek: Πλούταρχος, Ploútarkhos, anc) then named, on his becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (Μέστριος Πλούταρχος), c. 46 – 120 AD, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist known primaril...
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  8. Plutarch
    (c. 46-120 AD) Greek historian and biographer who wrote about the possibilities of lunar life in his De Facie in Orbe Lunae (On the face which appears in the Moon) in 70 AD. He wondered whether the Moon's apparent lack of clouds might mean it was intolerably dry, but decided on ...
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  9. Plutarch
    Plutarch (plOO'tärk) , A.D. 46?–c.A.D. 120, Greek essayist and biographer, b. Chaeronea, Boeotia. He traveled in Egypt and Italy, visited Rome (where he lectured on philosophy) and Athens, and finally returned to his native Boeotia, where he became a priest of the temple of Delphi. Hi...
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  10. Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist. He is best remembered for his Lives, a collection of short biographies of famous figures from Greek and Roman history arranged in contrasting pairs (for example, Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar are paired). He also wrote Moralia, a collection of ess...
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  11. Plutarch
    [disambiguation] Plutarch was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist. Plutarch may also refer to: From the Greek name Πλούταρχος (Ploutarchos), which meant "source of wealth" from Greek πλοῦτος (ploutos) "riches, wealth" and αρχη (arche) "origin, ...
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  12. plutarch
    1) 'parallel lives' biographer 2) Biographer 3) Parallel lives biographer 4) Plutarch 5) Writer whose work was shakespeare's primary source for 'julius caesar'
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