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This collection of essays addresses Plutarch's writings on practical ethics from different perspectives, including regarding their overall structure, content, p
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A Companion to Plutarch
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A Companion to Plutarch offers a broad survey of the famous historian and biographer; a coherent, comprehensive, and elegant presentation of Plutarch’s though