![]() ![]() (Some of the lives and the comparisons are lost.) His book has been used since the Renaissance for moral instruction. He believed history should be studied for its ethical lessons, so he placed the lives of famous Greeks and Romans beside each other – like Demosthenes and Cicero – and then wrote a brief comparison of their virtues and vices. He was devoted to antiquities and traditional religion, and served for decades as a priest at Delphi.Īmong his many books, Plutarch is best known for his Lives which has been at the center of European education for five centuries. Plutarch was born in Greece about 50 c.e. ![]() One of the most important surviving texts from the Greco-Roman world is Plutarch’s Lives of Noble Greeks and Romans, which has provided material about Greek and Roman leaders to writers and thinkers from Shakespeare to the present day. ![]()
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