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The Parallel Lives (Greek: Βίοι Παράλληλοι, Bíoi Parállēloi; Latin: Vītae Parallēlae) is a series of 48 biographies of famous men written by the Greco-Roman philosopher, historian, and Apollonian priest Plutarch, probably at the beginning of the second century.
Nov 12, 2004 · As already observed, it happens that thirteen of Plutarch's extant Lives are the lives of the most distinguished of the Romans who lived during this eventful period; and though Plutarch's Lives severally are not histories of the times to which they respectively refer, nor collectively form a History of any given time, yet they are valuable as ...
Parallel Lives, influential collection of biographies of famous Greek and Roman soldiers, legislators, orators, and statesmen written as Bioi parallëloi by the Greek writer Plutarch near the end of his life.
Plutarch's best-known work is the Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of illustrious Greeks and Romans, arranged in pairs to illuminate their common moral virtues and vices, thus it being more of an insight into human nature than a historical account. [39]
Parallel Lives is a collection of biographies structured according to the organizing principles of parallelism and ‘sameness’: each pair of Greek and Roman Lives forms a volume (a book unit), while together the pairs constitute a series. The process of comparison and parallelism is relevant to each pair of Lives in various ways.
Plutarch, biographer and author whose works strongly influenced the evolution of the essay, the biography, and historical writing in Europe from the 16th to the 19th century. Among his approximately 227 works, the most important are Parallel Lives and Moralia, or Ethica.
Apr 24, 2021 · Parallel Lives: Directed by Frank Matter. «Parallel Lives» follows the stories of five people who were born on June 8, 1964, but under entirely different circumstances.
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Jun 10, 2015 · 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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Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Plutarch The Parallel Lives, as translated by John Dryden and others (1683-86), revised and edited by Arthur Hugh Clough (1864).
