overlap.99 Many features are strongly evocative of just the same kind of cultural milieu, the strong ethical emphasis and purpose, the mixtures of popular religion, philosophical stance and partial rationalization, all elements clearly seen in Plutarch. But the biography is more likely to give an impressionistic portrait, less rigorous in its profession of detachment, chronology or critical treatment of sources, often anecdotal and topically arranged around the presentation of character. In Plutarch