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Meaning of PLUTARCH

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 Definition: [n]  the Greek biographer who wrote Parallel Lives (a collection of biographies of famous Greeks and Romans that Shakespeare used in writing his plays); (46?-120 AD)
 
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Plutarch
Written at the beginning of the second century A.D., it forms a brilliant social history of the ancient world. Plutarch was a man of immense erudition who had traveled widely throughout the Roman Empire, and the Lives are richly anecdotal and full of detail.

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