Definitions for "Plutarch"
Greek and Roman historian and pre-eminent biographer.
Greek biographer who wrote Parallel Lives (46?-120 AD)
Mestrius Plutarchus (Greek: Πλούταρχος; c. 46 - 127), better known in English as Plutarch, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist. Plutarch was born to a prominent family in Chaeronea, Boeotia [Greece], a town about twenty miles east of Delphi. His oeuvre consists of the Parallel Lives and the Moralia.
Plutarch is a lunar impact crater that lies near the north-northeastern limb of the Moon, just to the south of the irregular Seneca crater. To the southeast is the flooded Cannon crater. The proximity of this crater to the limb causes it to appear foreshortened when viewed from the Earth, but it is actually a circular formation.