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We now begin a journey through my Summer Reading Program. (What, did you think you’d escape the translations for a while?) I have chosen, somewhat irresponsibly, to do Plutarch’s life of Alexander for my summer Greek. It’d probably be far more responsible of me to go translate something from Euripides, but frankly, I am not up to that level of masochism. Plutarch it is. Alexander it is!

Just like with his account of Themistocles, this will be all anecdote-heavy. We start with the introduction from his collection of Alexander-and-Caesar, though I have no intention of translating the latter:

( Totally not a historian, guys. )