Parallel Lives: Complete
these things were done out of wantonness and lust.” Plutarch did such a remarkable job, Parallel Lives became the handbook for modern history’s heroes.
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The Romans versus Alexander the Great
Mary Beard • SPQR
In the Athens of 594 B.C., according to Plutarch, “the disparity of fortune between the rich and the poor had reached its height, so that the city seemed to be in a dangerous condition, and no other means for freeing it from disturbances… seemed possible but despotic power.”35 The poor, finding their status worsened with each year—the government in
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