Pseudo-Plutarch

Pseudo-Plutarch is the conventional name given to the actual, but unknown, authors of a number of pseudepigrapha attributed to Plutarch but now known not to have been written by him. Some of these works were included in some editions of Plutarch's Moralia.

Works

Among the works included in some editions of Plutarch's Moralia are:

the Lives of the Ten Orators, 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
De Musica
Whether Fire or Water is More Useful
Greek and Roman Parallel Stories, also known as the Parallela Minora
Pro Nobilitate
De fluviis
De Homero
De Unius in Re Publica Dominatione
Consolatio ad Apollonium

These works date to slightly later than Plutarch, but almost all of them date to late antiquity. One pseudepigraphal philosophical work, De Fato, is thought to be a 2nd-century Middle Platonic work.
Stromateis, an important source for pre-Socratic philosophy, is also falsely ascribed by Eusebius to Plutarch.
Some works ascribed to Plutarch are likely of medieval origin, such as the "". David Blank has recently shown that Pro Nobilitate was written by Arnoul Le Ferron and first published in 1556.