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Who is Plutarch and what did he do?
Plutarch is a Greco-Roman writer from the town of Chaeronea. He was a priest of Apollo and also did his civic duty as a local magistrate. He is best known for his writings of Parallel Lives, where he...
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What did Plutarch do?
We know Plutarch mainly as a writer of history from his parallel lives and fragments of his biographies of Roman emperors. However before writing he was also a minor official in his hometown of...
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Is Shakespeare a feminist or anti-feminist?
It really depends what you look at, and what your preconceptions are. A lot of attention is paid to The Taming of the Shrew, but that is only one play, and the only one in which Shakespeare appears...
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Who it PLUTARCH?
A greek writer and biographer who was a member of the litteray movement known as the second sophistic, which was the greek equivilent to the silver age of latin literature. He wrote during the...
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What was plutarch famous for?
Plutarch is the most famous biographer of the ancient world and the author of a famous collection now known as Plutarch's Lives. Plutarch's original title was Parallel Lives of Famous Greeks and...