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Plutarch's Lives

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noun

  1. (Parallel Lives ) a collection (a.d. 105–15) by Plutarch of short biographies of the leading political figures of ancient Greece and Rome.


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It was as if his brain was broken, and he went from writing term papers analyzing Plutarch's "Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans" to finger-painting.

From Salon • Aug. 10, 2022

He wrote him as a patient, learned man who falls asleep with his nose buried in "Plutarch's Lives," humbled by a divorce and deflated by a paltry paycheck.

From Salon • Mar. 18, 2022

The Bard borrowed plots, ideas, characters, themes, philosophies, and occasional passages from sources ranging from Plutarch’s Lives and Holinshed’s Chronicles to Montaigne’s Essays and plays by his contemporaries.

From Slate • Feb. 9, 2018

A series of such letters compiled and issued under one cover might easily carry to posterity the same lessons as our generation may get from Plutarch's Lives.

From Time Magazine Archive

The publication of such works as Hollingshed's "Chronicles," North's "Plutarch's Lives," Grimston's "History of France," and "The French Academy," could not have been produced with profit as the object.

From The Mystery of Francis Bacon by Smedley, William T.

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