Pseudo-Plutarch

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
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 2nd century Middle Platonic work.

Some works ascribed to Plutarch are likely of medieval origin, such as the Letter to Trajan.

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.

The works of Plutarch

Works	Parallel Lives Moralia Pseudo-Plutarch

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 and Gaius Gracchus Agis, and Cleomenes¹ Timoleon and Aemilius Paulus¹ Themistocles and Camillus

Translators and editors	Jacques Amyot Arthur Hugh Clough John Dryden Philemon Holland Thomas North

¹ Comparison extant ² Four unpaired Lives