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This book is a great opportunity to once again touch the stories of those who built European civilization.
The semi-mythical Theseus and Romulus, the commander of the Peloponnesian War Alcibiades, the second king of Rome Numa, or the legendary legislator of Sparta Lycurgus - on the pages of "Biographies" each of them appears not just as a historical unit, but as a personality with its own virtues and defects.
Plutarch himself emphasized that he was writing "biographies, not histories", so he generously seasoned them with fables and believed that an occasional joke reveals a person's character no worse than bold political decisions or glorious military victories.