# Plutarch

- Id: `plutarch`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/plutarch/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `available`
- Content checksum: `fc2413a1d360f5d93bed3e65bf5cfc306c28b50c1e12084437c3e997857fbc3e`

## Summary

Priest, Platonist and biographer, Plutarch compares choices under unequal fortunes to see where character becomes public action.

## Overview

Plutarch probably died after 119 CE and before 125 CE; the wider bound avoids false precision.

## Lifespan

```json
{
    "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

```json
{
    "id": "platonism",
    "name": "Socratic and Platonic thought",
    "detail": "Platonism / critic of Stoicism",
    "labels": [
        "Socratic and Platonic thought",
        "Platonism",
        "critic of Stoicism"
    ]
}
```

## Historical cutoff

```json
{
    "year": 125,
    "display": "125 CE",
    "reason": "Plutarch probably died after 119 CE and before 125 CE; the wider bound avoids false precision."
}
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 16,
    "passages": 1503,
    "languages": [
        "en",
        "fr",
        "grc"
    ],
    "intellectual_exposures": 2,
    "typed_relationships": 1
}
```

## Attested thinker encounters

```json
[
    {
        "person_id": "ammonius_of_athens",
        "name": "Ammonius of Athens",
        "relationship_type": "teacher",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_refs": [
            "biography.plutarch.sep"
        ]
    }
]
```

## Places

```json
[
    {
        "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/"
    }
]
```