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Discussions of Plutarch in context include R.H. Barrow, Plutarch and His Times (1967, reprinted 1979); C.J. Gianakaris, Plutarch (1970); C.P. Jones, Plutarch and Rome (1971); D.A. Russell, Plutarch, 2nd ed. (2001); Mark Beck (ed.), A Companion to Plutarch (2014); Philip A. Stadter (ed.), Plutarch and the Historical Tradition (1992); and Philip A. Stadter, Plutarch and His Roman Readers (2014). Among useful analytical works are Frederick E. Brenk, In Mist Apparelled: Religious Themes in Plutarch’s Moralia and Lives (1977); Tim Duff, Plutarch’s Lives: Exploring Virtue and Vice (1999); Simon Verdegem, Plutarch’s Life of Alcibiades: Story, Text, and Moralism (2010); and Jeffrey Beneker, The Passionate Statesman: Eros and Politics in Plutarch’s Lives (2012).
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modified link of Web site: Online Library of Liberty - Plutarch. | May 15, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Jan 01, 2026 | ||
| Added “circa” to birth year and updated image caption. | Dec 30, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: UNRV Roman History - Plutarch. | Nov 04, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Plutarch as Moral and Political Educator (PDF). | May 08, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Mar 18, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Ancient Origins - The Legacy of Plutarch: One of the Greatest Minds of Ancient Greece. | Jul 03, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Perseus Digital Library - A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology - Plutarchus. | May 23, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Apr 02, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Livius - Plutarch. | Jul 28, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Online Library of Liberty - Plutarch. | Feb 08, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia - Plutarch. | Oct 15, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Heritage History - Plutarch. | Apr 05, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Great Thinkers - Plutarch. | Jan 11, 2021 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Jul 25, 2018 | ||
| Changed title of the "Assessment" section to "Legacy." | Nov 15, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - Plutarchus. | Dec 07, 2016 | ||
| Revised and expanded with material from a previously published version of this article. | Nov 11, 2015 | ||
| Bibliography updated. | Nov 11, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: The University of Adelaide - Biography of Plutarch. | May 09, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Biography of Plutarch. | May 09, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Biography of Plutarch. | Jan 11, 2013 | ||
| Bibliography revised and updated. | May 14, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Livius - Plutarch. | Apr 07, 2008 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Apr 03, 2008 | ||
| Article revised. | Mar 16, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | May 29, 2002 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |