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Lives

  • 479 pages · about 8 hours
  • First published 1564
  • 323 editions
  • Free to read

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1 About this book

Character studies comparing statesmen and generals of pre-Christian Greece and Rome.

Good for readers who want: a true life story, history, and a long read.

  • Biography
  • Philosophy, ancient
  • Ethics, ancient
  • Ethics
  • Rome, history
  • History
  • Biography & autobiography
  • Historical

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3 About Plutarch

Died 120

Plutarch (; Ancient Greek: Πλούταρχος, Ploútarchos, Koine Greek:; before AD 50 – after 120) was a Greek and later Roman Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. He is known primarily for his Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of illustrious Greeks and Romans, and Moralia, a collection of essays and speeches.

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