Ten Famous Lives (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Plutarch
- First Published: 1962
- Time of Work: 528 –30
- Setting: Ancient Greece, Italy, and Egypt
- Principal Characters: Themistocles, Pericles, Demosthenes, Alexander the Great, Quintus Fabius Maximus, Marcus Porcius Cato, Gaius Julius Caesar, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Marcus Antonius
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: War, Rulers, Politicians, Military life or service, Greek or Roman times, Biography, Rome, Generals
- Locales: Greece, ancient, Egypt, ancient, Italy, ancient
Form and Content
The book that is known to the modern world as Plutarch’s Lives originated as three or more separate works written by Plutarch, an ancient Greek philosopher, priest, and essayist who lived during the early years of the Roman Empire. Fifty of Plutarch’s biographical portraits currently survive, forty-six of which are taken from the work known as the Parallel Lives. The Parallel Lives were brief biographies of twenty-three important Greeks paired with twenty-three important Romans who were regarded by Plutarch as similar to the Greeks in...
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