Vitae parallelae
by Plutarch
GeneralsEarly works to 1800RomeStatesmenGreece Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C.
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A Collection of potted biographies of Greek and Roman nobles. The biographies are arranged in pairs, one Greek and one Roman, ostensibly showing the similarities between them.
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GeneralsEarly works to 1800RomeStatesmenGreece Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C.Biography
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AthensAthens (Greece)GreeceRomePeloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C.
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Plutarch
c. 46 – c. 120
Plutarch, born Plutarchos (Greek: Πλούταρχος) then, on his becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (Μέστριος Πλούταρχος), c. 46 – 120 AD, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia. He was born to a prominent family in Chaeronea, Boeotia, a town about twenty miles east of Delphi. Plutarch died between the years AD 119 and 127.
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