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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

Plots to Shakespeare were like pots to Merlin: any borrowed tub, from Holinshed's Chronicles to Plutarch's Lives, would do to mix the magic in.

From Time Magazine Archive

Plutarch's Lives, for instance, will be useful and interesting.

From Practical Education, Volume II by Maria Edgeworth

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