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Les Vies des hommes illustres Grecs et Romains

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In Jacques Amyot
…translation of Plutarch’s Lives (Les Vies des hommes illustres Grecs et Romains, 1559), which became a major influence in shaping the Renaissance concept of the tragic hero.
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translation of Plutarch’s “Lives”

In Plutarch: Reputation and influence of Plutarch
The Lives were translated into French in 1559 by Jacques Amyot, a French bishop and classical scholar, who also translated the Moralia (1572). The first complete edition of the Greek texts by the French humanist Henri II Estienne in 1572 marked a great improvement in the…
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