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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.
Life of Caesar. (Plutarch) The Life of Caesar (original Greek title: Καίσαρ; translated into Latin as Vita Iulii Caesaris) is a biography of Julius Caesar written in Ancient Greek in the beginning of the 2nd century AD by the Greek moralist Plutarch, as part of his Parallel Lives. In this book comparing Greek and Roman statesmen, Plutarch ...
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.
Nov 12, 2004 · The first edition of the Greek text of Plutarch's Lives appeared at Florence in the year 1517, and two years afterwards it was republished by Aldus. Before this, however, about the year 1470, a magnificent Latin version by various hands appeared at Rome.
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Dec 5, 2014 · Plutarch's best-known work is the Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of famous Greeks and Romans, arranged in pairs to illuminate their common moral virtues and vices. The surviving Lives contain 23 pairs, each with one Greek Life and one Roman Life, as well as four unpaired single Lives.
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Sep 7, 2010 · Plutarch of Chaeronea in Boeotia ( ca. 45–120 CE) was a Platonist philosopher, best known to the general public as author of his “Parallel Lives” of paired Greek and Roman statesmen and military leaders.
Feb 26, 2023 · Although written in Greek as the Βίοι Παράλληλοι (Bíoi Parállēloi, "Parallel Lives"), the work was formerly more commonly referenced by its Latin translation Vitae (fully Vitae Parallelae). It is also known as The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans or Vitae Illustrium Virorum.
Apr 14, 2020 · Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives , is a series of 48 biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings, probably written at the beginning of the second century AD.
Plutarch’s Parallel Lives is a collection of biographies structured according to the organizing principles of parallelism or ‘sameness’ (determined by the fact that men engaged in similar activities): each pair of Greek and Roman Lives forms a volume (a book unit), while together the pairs constitute a series.
