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Plutarch’s Greeks & Romans Podcast

Ancient Greek & Roman History

Welcome to Plutarch’s Greek and Romans, a podcast taking you on a tour through ancient Greek and Roman history, seen through the lives of the most famous and influential people who lived it, with the ancient historian and biographer Plutarch as our guide and companion.

Who was Plutarch

Plutarch (AD 46 – AD 119) was a Greek-Roman Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. 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. Upon becoming a Roman citizen, he was named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus.

Plutarch’s best-known work is the Parallel Lives and the basis of the podcast, a series of biographies of illustrious Greeks and Romans, arranged in pairs to illuminate their common moral virtues and vices, thus it being more of an insight into human nature than a historical account. The surviving Lives contain 23 pairs, each with one Greek life and one Roman life, as well as four unpaired single lives.

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Episode 19: The life of Camillus Plutarch's Greeks and Romans Podcast

Furius Camillus, whom many historians, Plutarch included, say is the second founder of Rome and in my opinion is one of the greatest Roman leaders at least up until the Empire, and even then, still holds his own! Support the show
  1. Episode 19: The life of Camillus
  2. Episode 18: The Life of Lysander
  3. Episode 17: The Life of Alcibiades Part 3
  4. Episode 16: The Lives of Alcibiades and Nicias – Part 2
  5. Episode 15: The Lives of Alcibiades and Nicias – Part 1

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