# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/plutarch
# Generated: 2026-09-01T12:43:01.608Z

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name: "Plutarch"
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description: "He mapped greatness by pairing it: Greek statesmen against Roman generals, philosophers against warriors, virtue against vice. His *Parallel Lives* became the template for understanding character through comparison, and for two thousand years anyone writing biography has walked in the corridor he built."
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deathDate: "120"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born before AD 50 in Greece, Plutarch lived through the height of Roman imperial power and eventually took Roman citizenship, likely becoming Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus. He served as a priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi and worked as a Middle Platonist philosopher, but his lasting mark came through two vast projects. *Parallel Lives* assembled biographies of illustrious Greeks and Romans, setting them side by side to reveal what made them rise or fall. *Moralia* gathered his essays and speeches on ethics, education, and daily life. He died sometime after AD 120, leaving behind a body of work that shaped how the West thought about leadership, morality, and the weight of individual choices.