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Portrait of Plutarch

Ancient · AD 46–119

Who did Plutarch influence?

Students and legacy

His Parallel Lives taught Rome's readers — and Renaissance princes — what character is.

Plutarch influenced Niccolò Machiavelli and Michel de Montaigne. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.

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Who was Plutarch?

Plutarch was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian and essayist who also served as a priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. When he became a Roman citizen he probably took the name Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus.

He is known above all for the Parallel Lives, paired biographies of famous Greeks and Romans, and for the Moralia, a collection of essays and speeches.

Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.

Who did Plutarch influence?

2 thinkers on this map draw directly on Plutarch.

Two steps away from Plutarch

The second generation

Contemporaries of Plutarch

Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Plutarch, with no direct line between them.

Plutarch by the numbers

Direct influences
0
Direct followers
2
Thinkers upstream
0
Thinkers downstream
136
Wikipedia languages
100 — #12 of 54 among ancient philosophers
Card rarity
Legendary

Questions about Plutarch

Who influenced Plutarch?
No earlier thinker on this map is recorded as a direct influence on Plutarch.
Who did Plutarch influence?
Niccolò Machiavelli and Michel de Montaigne.
When did Plutarch live?
AD 46–119. The map files Plutarch under the ancient world.
How rare is the Plutarch card?
Wikipedia carries an article on Plutarch in 100 languages, which makes it a Legendary card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.

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