The most basic primer comes courtesy of Plutarch Heavensbee, the Head Gamesmaker whose rebel plot effectively ends the Hunger Games in Catching Fire, the second book in Collins’ original trilogy.

Plutarch was born around AD 46 in the central Greek town of Chaeronea in Boeotia, apparently of a well-to-do family. As a young man, he was sent to finish his education at Athens, where in 66 AD ...

In short, Plutarch regarded history as a moral theater whose performances it was his task to recapitulate for the edification of himself and his readers. Considered as a “mirror” for the soul (as ...

Oscar nominee Jesse Plemons has been cast as Plutarch Heavensbee in Lionsgate's "The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping," the studio announced on Friday. A future Head Gamemaker and rebellion ...

Jesse Plemons has been cast as Plutarch Heavensbee in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, and he will be playing a younger version of the character the late Philip Seymour Hoffman played in ...

Plutarch (trans. Robin Waterfield), Hellenistic Lives (Oxford University Press, 2016) Plutarch (trans. Ian Scott-Kilvert), The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives (Penguin, 2023) ...

Plutarch seems not to notice that in the course of this turmoil a cultural revolution took place, as Romans stepped away from the cultural shadow of Greece, producing a staggering concentration of ...

Plutarch was far too intelligent and urbane not to see the crosscurrents of their natures. What makes the Lives entertaining, and true after so many centuries, is, precisely, their continuing ...