Plutarch's Life
Plutarch was born in this ancient country.
Greece
Plutarch is best known for these paired biographies of famous Greeks and Romans.
Parallel lives
Plutarch argued, against the Stoics, that animals also share in this ability to think.
reason
Plutarch was a Platonist, meaning a follower of this philosopher.
Plato
Plutarch believed the world was created by this being.
God
Plutarch spent most of his life in this small Greek city, where he was born.
Chaeorna
This is the name for Plutarch's collection of philosophical essays.
Morallia
In one of his essays, Plutarch gives advice on how to control this strong emotion.
Plutarch focused mostly on this Platonic dialogue about how the world was created.
Timaeus
Plutarch took Plato's story of creation literally, so he believed the world had a beginning in this.
time
This Platonist philosopher was Plutarch's teacher in Athens.
Ammonius
Like Plato, Plutarch wrote many of his essays in this conversational format.
dialouge
Plutarch compared young people reading poetry to these insects that collect the best from flowers.
bees
Plutarch admired this teacher of Plato, who always admitted he didn't know everything.
Socrates
Plutarch believed in two opposing forces, one good and one bad. This idea is called this.
Dualism
At Delphi, Plutarch served as a priest of this god.
Apollo
The Lives show Plutarch's interest in forming this: a person's moral nature.
character
Plutarch hoped readers of the Lives would do this with the virtuous actions of great people.
Imitate
Plutarch supported "suspension of judgment," which means doing this.
making quick or final judgment
In Plutarch's view, God stands for order and goodness, while the other principle stands for this opposite.
Disorder
In 119 CE, this Roman emperor appointed Plutarch a procurator of Achaea.
Hadrian
Plutarch wrote many works arguing against these two schools of philosophy.
Stoic/Epicureans
This later philosopher, who lived 204-270 CE, also tried to build a complete system from Plato's work.
Plotinus
Plutarch defended the unity of this school that Plato founded.
the Academy
Plutarch said these beings, between gods and humans, carry God's will to people. The Greek name is sometimes translated "demons."
Diamones