Plutarch's Lives I: The Historians - Demosthenes and Cicero

FULL lecture from Old Western Culture, year 2: The Romans.
Unit: The Historians | Lecture 9 - Demosthenes and Cicero (Plutarch's Lives I).

Learn how Cicero and Demosthenes were not only incredibly influential in their own day, but how that influence was carried on through the middle ages, and up to the American founding fathers and beyond. Learn about Plutarch's approach to writing these biographies, or "lives," and what that tells us of about the Roman culture.

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