The Anxiety of the East in the Roman Period

Plutarch is both an interesting source and a source we have to like question at all times. For each of the paired lives he also wrote a comparison essay at the end of the second life that was like now what can we learn from these two lives? Most of those don't survive because they're honestly a little bit boring so they're not the number of people who are interested in it. Pizanias lies at the heart of classical archaeology in Greece as well as being an ancient historian.