Parallel Lives (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Plutarch
- First Published: 1579
- Type of Work: Biography
- Principal Characters: Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, Marc Antony, Demetrius, Marcus Brutus, Dion, Demosthenes, Cicero, Alcibiades, Coriolanus, Solon, Poplicola, Theseus, Romulus
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Biography, Sociology
- Subjects: Mythology or myths, Legends, Greek or Roman times, Greece or Greek people, Rome, Heads of state, Generals
The collection that is today known simply as Plutarch’s Lives is derived from the Parallel Lives, a work in which Plutarch presented a large number of biographies (of which forty-six survive), alternating the lives of eminent Greeks with comparable lives of eminent Romans. A number of shorter essays compared the lives accorded biographical treatment. The collection as it survives includes some biographies written independently of the Parallel Lives, such as the biographies of Otho, Galba, Artaxerxes, and Aratus.
Plutarch considered the lives of famous men...
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