![]() After Nero died in 68 CE, Plutarch would not hesitate to label him a tyrant. When Nero visited Greece Plutarch traveled with his teacher to see the Emperor compete in the Pythian Games at Delphi Plutarch may even have witnessed Nero declare Greece’s freedom (soon revoked) after competing in Corinth’s Isthmian Games. He studied under the philosopher Ammonius and read Plato’s works as a student in the Academy. Under Nero, Plutarch reached maturity and left home for Athens. Plutarch was born about 45 CE in the small but historically significant town of Chaeronea, the site of battles that confirmed Macedon’s and later Rome’s conquest of Greece. A corpus so unwieldy inevitably touches on a variety of themes, but the source of Plutarch’s enduring influence has been his insight into human excellence in political life. A catalog of Plutarch’s works compiled a century or so after his death records another hundred works, now lost. ![]() He also wrote more than seventy treatises, dialogues, and speeches that have come down to us as the Moralia. ![]() Plutarch of Chaeronea is best known as the author of the Parallel Lives, a collection of forty-six short biographies arranged in pairs of Greeks and Romans. ![]()
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