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Plutarch (c. AD 40–120), a native of Greece and a citizen of Rome, was a philosopher, writer, lecturer, and an expert on teaching and learning. He wrote many essays on ethics, history, science, and culture, in addition to Parallel Lives, his famous biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen. Jeffrey Beneker is professor of classics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the editor and translator of Plutarch’s How to Be a Leader (Princeton) and the author of The Passionate Statesman: Eros and Politics in Plutarch’s Lives.
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