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Written early in the second century A.D., Plutarch's biographies pair and compare famous figures of ancient Greece and Rome, among them Theseus and Romulus, Lycurgus and Numa, and Pericles and Fabius, and show how character shaped each life.
Ryan Holiday called Plutarch the master of the biography genre and recommended the Penguin collections of the Lives.
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Ryan Holiday (Founder/Brass Check)
Clearly the master of this genre, Plutarch wrote biographies of famous Greeks and Romans around the year 100 AD. As always, I tend to default to the Penguin collections. I strongly recommend Plutarch’s Lives Vol. I & II, Essays, and The Makers of Rome: Nine Lives. His book On Sparta is also a collection of biographies (and aphorisms) from the famous Spartans. There is a reason that Shakespeare based many of his plays on Plutarch—not only are they well-written and exciting but they exhibit everything that is good and bad about the human condition. Greed, love, pain, hate, success, selflessness, leadership, stupidity—it’s all there.
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