What language did Plutarch primarily write in?
Latin
Koine Greek
Egyptian
Persian
Answer
Plutarch wrote in Koine Greek. He was a Greek biographer and essayist who lived in the Roman Empire in the second century AD. He is best known for his Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of famous Greeks and Romans. Koine Greek was the common language of the eastern Mediterranean during the Hellenistic period, and it was used by many writers of the time.
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