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Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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Plutarch
Start Publishing LLC · Print & ebook · December 28, 2012
Reading lane: Ancient Greece
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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Why This Clicks
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
Book Details
- Authors
- Plutarch
- Publisher
- Start Publishing LLC
- Published
- December 28, 2012
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Ancient Greece · Ancient Rome
- Reading lane
- Ancient Greece
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Publisher Categories
Ancient Greece
Ancient Rome
About This Book
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. It is a work of considerable importance, not only as a source of information about the individuals bi...
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