Plutarch
Greek lives chronicler
Plutarch was a Greek historian and philosopher of the first century CE, best known for *Parallel Lives*, biographical sketches pairing notable Greeks with Romans.
His moralistic approach to biography influenced later writers.
Plutarchian or Plutarchan describes work in his style—character-driven, ethically concerned, drawing parallels across cultures or eras.
Equidistant at all points
- biographyWritten life account
- SolonGreek statesman and reformer
- AlexanderMasculine Greek-origin name
- CaesarRoman imperial title
Theseus · Romulus · Pericles · Cicero · Demosthenes · Antony · Brutus · Cato
Study of right conduct
- PlatonistFollower of Athenian philosopher
- DelphiGreek prophetic sanctuary
- priestOne who performs sacraments
- dialogueSpoken exchange between parties
virtue · soul · wisdom · Academy · treatise · consolation · divine · providence
Elizabethan dramatist and poet
- EmersonAnglo surname, various namesakes
- Founding FathersRevolutionary-era American statesmen
- RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening
- EnlightenmentEra prioritizing reason over dogma
education · character · republican · civic · virtue · exemplar · pedagogy · Jefferson
Great age, ancient era
- GreekOf Athenian origin
- RomanOf ancient Italy's capital
- sourcePoint of origin
- historianExpert on past events
manuscript · translation · North · Renaissance · humanist · classical · scholarship · quotation
parallel
Equidistant at all points
Caesar · Theseus · Romulus · Pericles · Cicero · Demosthenes · Antony · Brutus · Cato · hagiography
ethics
Study of right conduct
- PlatonistFollower of Athenian philosopher
- DelphiGreek prophetic sanctuary
- priestOne who performs sacraments
dialogue · virtue · soul · wisdom · Academy · treatise · consolation · divine · providence · superstition
Shakespeare
Elizabethan dramatist and poet
- EmersonAnglo surname, various namesakes
- Founding FathersRevolutionary-era American statesmen
- RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening
Enlightenment · education · character · republican · civic · virtue · exemplar · pedagogy · Jefferson · Hamilton
antiquity
Great age, ancient era
historian · manuscript · translation · North · Renaissance · humanist · classical · scholarship · quotation · fragment
- historianshistorian, historians, chronicler, chroniclers, annalist
- Ancient RomeRome, Julius Caesar, Caesar, gladiator, gladiators
- classicsHomer, Iliad, the Iliad, Odyssey, the Odyssey
- ancient GreeceAthens, Sparta, Zeus, Parthenon, Acropolis
- Hunger GamesKatniss, Capitol, tributes, reaping, arena
- ancient historiansHerodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Tacitus, Livy
PlutarchEpicurus
Athenian pleasure-seeking sage
Lucretius · Democritus · materialist · atomist · skeptic
hierarchy, monarchy, archipelago, plutocracy, plutonium, plutocrat, archon