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Sunday, December 22nd, 2024
the Fourth Week of Advent
the Fourth Week of Advent
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Plutarch
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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Celebrated Greek biographer and moralist, born at Chæronea, in Boeotia; studied at Athens; paid frequent visits to Rome, and formed friendships with some of its distinguished citizens; spent his later years at his native place, and held a priesthood; his fame rests on his "Parallel Lives" of 46 distinguished Greeks and Romans, a series of portraitures true to the life, and a work one of the most valuable we possess on the illustrious men of antiquity, and an enduring memorial of them (50-120).
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Bibliography Information
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Plutarch'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/p/plutarch.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Plutarch'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/p/plutarch.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
