Lamprias

{{short description|Grandfather of Plutarch}} '''Lamprias''' (Greek: Λαμπρίας) was the grandfather of the Greek biographer and philosopher Plutarch. He appears as a character in several of Plutarch's works, notably the ''Table Talks''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jones |first=C. P. |title=Plutarch and Rome |publisher=Clarendon |year=1971 |isbn=9780198143635 |location=Oxford |pages=9-10}}</ref> He is also mentioned in Plutarch's ''Life of Antony'' as a friend of Philotas, the latter being one of Mark Antony's court physicians and a witness for some of the stories Plutarch relates about Antony and Cleopatra.<ref>{{cite Plutarch|Antony|28}}</ref> Elsewhere Plutarch quotes him making ironic observations about Jewish dietary laws.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Plutarch |title=Quaestiones Conviviales, 669d |url=https://topostext.org/work/297#669d |access-date=2023-01-23 |website=ToposText}}</ref>

According to Plutarch, Lamprias was a man of eloquence and imagination. Very little is known of his life apart from what can be gleaned from Plutarch's writing. He probably lived, like Plutarch, in Chaeronea of Boeotia, in Central Greece.

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==External links== *{{cite DGRBM|title=Lamprias|wstitle=Lamprias}} * {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110514092044/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/1823.html Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]}} v. 2, page 715

Category:1st-century Greek people Category:Ancient Boeotians