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PlutarkhPlutarch

(46-120 CE) A Greek biographer who left us a treasure trove of information about great personalities of ancient Greece and Rome in his series of books, Plutarch’s Lives, which was written between 105-115 CE.

Although he was removed from such historical figures as Perikles (Pericles) and Alexander the Great by hundreds of years, his insight as to their achievements and characters has credibility because he had access to documents that are now lost; he put his own opinions into perspective by declaring that relying on the accounts of contemporary sources “defiles and distorts the truth.”

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