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We understand from the passage that, in his Parallel Lives, Plutarch ----.
The origins of biography are to be found in early
legendary accounts of the Greek, Germanic and
Celtic heroes. Another early type of biography is the
records of the teaching and deeds of wise men. The
accounts of the life and teaching of Socrates given
by Plato and Xenophon may be regarded as a
development of this kind of record. The interest of the
Socratic dialogues of Plato is philosophic rather than
biographical, but the Memorabilia of Xenophon,
though not a biography in the modern sense of the
word, comprises a series of sketches of the great
philosopher with intimacy and vividness. The first
European author, remembered primarily as a
biographer, is Plutarch, a Greek philosopher who
lived under the Roman Empire. His Parallel Lives of
ancient Greek and Roman statesmen and soldiers is
one of the most fascinating works of antiquity and
influential in the European biographical tradition.
Moreover, he seems to have been the first author to
distinguish sharply between biography and history.