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Plutarch’s Lives

A brilliant social history of the ancient world

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Ryan Holiday
@ryanholiday · Author, Ego is the Enemy
There are few books more influential and ubiquitous in Western culture than Plutarch's histories. Aside from being the basis of much of Shakespeare, he was one of Montaigne's favorite writers and so many others. His biographies and sketches of Pericles, Demosthenes, Themistocles, Cicero, Alexander the Great, Caesar, Fabius, are all excellent--and full of pow… See more