Parallel lives, and a bunch of other boring books q:
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Plutarch of Chaeronea (c. 46 - 120) wrote many works of which 48 biographies and 75 other works (MORALIA) survive. His LIVES are essentially character studies. He did not write them during any one year, but he wrote them over the course of many years.
No, the Spartacus revolt happened about 188 years before Plutarch was born.No, the Spartacus revolt happened about 188 years before Plutarch was born.No, the Spartacus revolt happened about 188 years before Plutarch was born.No, the Spartacus revolt happened about 188 years before Plutarch was born.No, the Spartacus revolt happened about 188 years before Plutarch was born.No, the Spartacus revolt happened about 188 years before Plutarch was born.No, the Spartacus revolt happened about 188 years before Plutarch was born.No, the Spartacus revolt happened about 188 years before Plutarch was born.No, the Spartacus revolt happened about 188 years before Plutarch was born.
In my view the exploration of virtue in Plutachs parallel lives and the moralistic tone of the narrative seems to suggest that Plutarch belived that the attainment of virtue was the purpose of life.
Cleopatra VII is said by Plutarch to have done this,