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Plutarch February 4, 2026 – Posted in: Authors

Greek historian PLUTARCH was born shortly before 50 CE in the small city of Chaeronia in Boeotia (Central Greece). He came from a prosperous family and studied in Athens, at Plato’s Academy. He travelled extensively in Greece, visited Alexandria in Egypt and regions of Asia Minor, and spent time in Rome, where he became friendly with illustrious Roman senators. Returning to Chaeronia he married, started a family, and assumed local public office in several capacities.…

Roderick Beaton June 5, 2019 – Posted in: Authors, Translators

Roderick Beaton grew up in Edinburgh and studied English Literature at Cambridge, before specialising in Modern Greek studies. For thirty years until his retirement he held the Koraes Chair of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature at King’s College London, and is now Emeritus. Roderick is the author of several books of non-fiction, one novel, and several translations of fiction and poetry, all of them connected to Greece and the Greek-speaking world. He…