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Plutarch's Lives
classics.mit.edu
All of the classic biographies of heroes and villains from ancient Greece and Rome. The English text is awkward and antiquated, but it's the complete Dryden edition (1683), as rev…
Shakespeare's Sources in Plutarch's Parallel Lives
perseus.tufts.edu
A few biographies of ancient Roman and Greek heroes from J. W. Skeat's 19th century edition of Sir Thomas North's 1579 English edition. The North edition was a Renaissance best-sel…