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What is Plutarch best remembered for?

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Plutarch’s popularity rests primarily on his Parallel Lives, biographies of Greek and Roman heroes in pairs, chosen for their similarity of character or career and each followed by a formal comparison. They were designed to encourage mutual respect between Greeks and Romans and to provide model patterns of behaviour by exhibiting noble deeds and characters.

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