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Diogenes' Laeritus and the Imminent Philosophers
Modern biographers seem to fancy themselves as superior to Plutarch, he says. They're missing the point of a biography, which is how to learn how to be a great man or woman and what not to do in life. Diogenes' Laeritus was designed "to get to the essence of what made that person tick," writes Stoics.