Pseudo-Plutarch

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Pseudo-Plutarch is the conventional name given to the unknown authors of a number of pseudepigrapha attributed to Plutarch.

Some of these works were included in some editions of Plutarch's Moralia. Among these are

• the Lives of the Ten Orators (vitae decem oratorum, biographies of the Ten Orators of ancient Athens, based on Caecilius of Calacte), possibly deriving from a common source with the Lives of Photius.
• The Doctrines of the Philosophers
• On Music
• Parallela Minora [1]
• Pro nobilitate
• On Rivers
• De Homero
• De unius in re publica dominatione is of uncertain authenticity.

These works date to slightly later than Plutarch, but they all date to Late Antiquity (3rd to 4th century AD).

One pseudepigraphal philosophical work, De fato (included in editions of Plutarch's Moralia) is thought to be a second century Middle Platonic work.

Some works ascribed to Plutarch are likely of medieval origin, such as the letter to Trajan [2]

[edit] Literature

• Aalders G. J. D. "Plutarch or Pseudo-Plutarch ? The authorship of De unius in re publica dominatione" Mnemosyne XXXV (1982) :72-83
• Boscherini, S. 1985 "A proposito della tradizione del Pro nobilitate pseudo-plutarcheo" in R. Cardini, E. Garin, L. C. Martinelli, G. Pascucci, eds., Tradizione classica e letteratura umanistica. Per Alessandro Perosa. Vol.I. II. (Humanistica.3.4.). (Roma): 651-660.
• Conti Bizzarro, Ferruccio "Note a Ps.-Plutarch. de musica" MCr 29 (1994): 259-261
• Hillgruber, Michael 1994 Die pseudoplutarchische Schrift De Homero. (Stuttgart).
• Jurado, E.A. Ramos 1990 "Quaestiones ps.-Plutarcheae" in Pérez Jimenez 1990: 123-126.
• Seeliger, Friedrich Konrad 1874 De Dionysio Halicarnassensi Plutarchi qui vulgo fertur in vitis decem oratorum auctore. Dissertation--Leipzig. (Budissae).
• Smith, Rebekah M. 1992 "Photius on the ten orators" GRBS 33: 159-189.
• Tieleman, Teun 1991 "Diogenes of Babylon and Stoic embryology: Ps. Plutarch, Plac. V 15.4 reconsidered." Mnemosyne 44: 106-125.

[edit] External links

• http://www.utexas.edu/depts/classics/chaironeia/bibliography.html#pseudo

The Works of Plutarch
The Works	Parallel Lives | The Moralia | Pseudo-Plutarch
The Lives	Alcibiades and Coriolanus1 • Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar • Aratus of Sicyon & Artaxerxes and Galba & Otho2 • Aristides and Cato the Elder1 Crassus and Nicias1 • Demetrius and Antony1 • Demosthenes and Cicero1 • Dion and Brutus1 • Fabius and Pericles1 • Lucullus and Cimon1 Lysander and Sulla1 • Numa and Lycurgus1 • Pelopidas and Marcellus1 • Philopoemen and Flamininus1 • Phocion and Cato the Younger Pompey and Agesilaus1 • Poplicola and Solon1 • Pyrrhus and Gaius Marius • Romulus and Theseus1 • Sertorius and Eumenes1 Tiberius Gracchus & Gaius Gracchus and Agis & Cleomenes1 • Timoleon and Aemilius Paulus1 • Themistocles and Camillus
The Translators	John Dryden | Thomas North | Jacques Amyot | Philemon Holland | Arthur Hugh Clough
view • talk • edit	1 Comparison extant 2 Four unpaired Lives