Greek Lives

Them Greeks sure liked war.......more

...the most outstanding exploits do not always have the property of revealing the goodness or badness of the agent; often, in fact, a casual action, the odd phrase, or a jest reveals character better than battles involving the loss of thousands upon thousands of lives, huge troop movements, and w......more

Plutarch's lives are a series of biographies of famous men but with a twist. While most biographies focus on the heroic achievements or reprehensible villainy of their subjects and focus on landmark events or military exploits, Plutarch traces a different course. He focusses far more heavily on the......more

Having had a very spotty education in foreign languages owing to several moves from one to another school district (German in 2nd grade, Spanish in 3rd-5th, French in 6th-8th), I went for something new in high school, viz. Latin. It was in high school Latin that I discovered that my difficulties wit......more

I know. Giving Plutarch only three stars. I’m awful. Maybe he can impress me with his Roman Lives. :p......more