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Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the character and personality of his... read more
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When AEthra was delivered of a son, some say that he was immediately named Thesus, from the tokens which his father had put under the stone; others that he had received his name afterwards at Athens, when AEgeus acknowledged him for his son.
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