{
    "schema": "prokopton42-public-thinker-v1",
    "id": "plutarch",
    "canonical_url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/plutarch/",
    "language": "en",
    "title": "Plutarch",
    "editorial_status": "available",
    "summary": "Priest, Platonist and biographer, Plutarch compares choices under unequal fortunes to see where character becomes public action.",
    "body": "Plutarch probably died after 119 CE and before 125 CE; the wider bound avoids false precision.",
    "lifespan": {
        "display": "c. 46–c. 119 CE",
        "era": "Hellenistic and Roman era",
        "distance": "about 1,907–1,980 years ago",
        "age_at_death": 73
    },
    "intellectual_tradition": {
        "id": "platonism",
        "name": "Socratic and Platonic thought",
        "detail": "Platonism / critic of Stoicism",
        "labels": [
            "Socratic and Platonic thought",
            "Platonism",
            "critic of Stoicism"
        ]
    },
    "historical_cutoff": {
        "year": 125,
        "display": "125 CE",
        "reason": "Plutarch probably died after 119 CE and before 125 CE; the wider bound avoids false precision."
    },
    "statistics": {
        "works": 16,
        "passages": 1503,
        "languages": [
            "en",
            "fr",
            "grc"
        ],
        "intellectual_exposures": 2,
        "typed_relationships": 1
    },
    "attested_thinker_encounters": [
        {
            "person_id": "ammonius_of_athens",
            "name": "Ammonius of Athens",
            "relationship_type": "teacher",
            "confidence": "B",
            "source_refs": [
                "biography.plutarch.sep"
            ]
        }
    ],
    "places": [
        {
            "name": "Chaeronea",
            "period": "c. 46-c. 119 CE",
            "description": "Home, civic life and principal place of writing.",
            "confidence": "A",
            "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plutarch/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Athens",
            "period": "education",
            "description": "Philosophical study with Ammonius.",
            "confidence": "A",
            "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plutarch/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Delphi",
            "period": "adult life",
            "description": "Long service as priest of Apollo.",
            "confidence": "A",
            "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plutarch/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Rome",
            "period": "multiple visits",
            "description": "Lectures, friendships and public connections.",
            "confidence": "A",
            "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plutarch/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Alexandria",
            "period": "traditional travel",
            "description": "Egyptian journey reported in biographical tradition.",
            "confidence": "C",
            "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plutarch/"
        },
        {
            "name": "Ravenna",
            "period": "uncertain visit",
            "description": "Plutarch says he saw a marble likeness of Marius there; the itinerary and date are unknown.",
            "confidence": "C",
            "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plutarch/"
        }
    ],
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}