by Plutarch
Recommended by Ryan Holiday
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Books Recommended by Ryan Holiday, Biographies, and Most Recommended Books.
Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the character and personality of his subjects and how they led ultimately to tragedy or victo...
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