Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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Start Publishing LLC · Print & ebook · December 28, 2012
Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings.
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- Who it’s for
- Greek and Roman biographies meet in pairs, making character—and its contradictions—the point of comparison.
- Themes
- Biographies of famous men, Moral virtues and failings, Greek and Roman lives
- Genres
- Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Ancient History
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Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving Parallel Lives, contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman, as well as four unpaired, single lives.
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It is a work of considerable importance, not only as a source of information about the individuals biographized, but also about the times in which they lived.
Lives in Parallel
Greek and Roman biographies meet in pairs, making character—and its contradictions—the point of comparison.
Come here for
- Ancient lives read side by side across Greek and Roman worlds
- Moral virtues and failings viewed through comparison
Expect
- A biographical collection arranged in paired lives
- A layered look at people and the times they lived
Where it sits
| Ancient Rome | 95% |
|---|---|
| Ancient Greece | 43% |
| Ancient History | 36% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Ancient Greece
- Ancient Rome
- Authors
- Plutarch
- Publisher
- Start Publishing LLC
- Published
- December 28, 2012
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Biographies of famous men · Moral virtues and failings · Greek and Roman lives
- Reading lane
- Ancient Greece