Plutarch.
Plutarch was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo. He is known primarily for his Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of illustrious Greeks and Romans, and Moralia, a collection of essays and speeches. (Source: Wikipedia)
8) Symposiacs
Symposiacs is a work by Plutarch.
Plutarch was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo. He is known primarily for his Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of illustrious Greeks and Romans, and Moralia, a collection of essays and speeches. (Source: Wikipedia)
Plutarch was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo. He is known primarily for his Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of illustrious Greeks and Romans, and Moralia, a collection of essays and speeches. (Source: Wikipedia)
In Lives, his most famous and influential work, Plutarch explores how character and personality lead to happiness and tragedy. The biographical history was written at the beginning of the second century A.D. This version was translated and published in 1683 by John Dryden then revised in 1864 by the poet and scholar Arthur Hugh Clough.