Vol 1 presents the paired lives of Theseus and Romulus, Lycurgus and Numa, and Solon and Poplicola. In this copy-right expired 11-volume translation from the Loeb Classical library, the order of the paired lives is rearranged to present the Greek lives in chronological order. Likewise, his portrait of Numa Pompilius, an early Roman king, also contains unique information about the early Roman calendar. His Life of Alexander is one of the five surviving secondary or tertiary sources about Alexander the Great and it includes anecdotes and descriptions of incidents that appear in no other source. The first pair of lives the Epaminondas-Scipio Africanus no longer exists, and many of the remaining lives are truncated, contain obvious lacunae and/or have been tampered with by later writers. Plutarch was not concerned with writing histories, as such, but in exploring the influence of character, good or bad, on the lives and destinies of famous men. The surviving lives, contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman, as well as four unpaired, single lives.

Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. Translated by Bernadotte Perrin (1847 - 1920) The Loeb Classical Library edition of the Lives is in eleven volumes.Download cover art Download CD case insert Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. They are of high literary value, besides being of great use to people interested in philosophy, ethics and religion. Plutarch's many other varied extant works, about 60 in number, are known as Moralia or Moral Essays. All are invaluable sources of our knowledge of the lives and characters of Greek and Roman statesmen, soldiers and orators. Most popular have always been the 46 Parallel Lives, biographies planned to be ethical examples in pairs (in each pair, one Greek figure and one similar Roman), though the last four lives are single. He appears as a man of kindly character and independent thought, studious and learned.

He was married and the father of one daughter and four sons. This excerpt concerns laws related to the education of women and marriage. They were sons of Tiberius Gracchus, who, although he had been censor at Rome. Now that we have duly finished the first part of our story, we have to contemplate fates no less tragic than those of Agis and Cleomenes in the lives of the Roman couple, Tiberius and Caius, which we set in parallel. 45–120 CE, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given consular rank by the emperor Trajan and a procuratorship in Greece by Hadrian. Part of Plutarchs Parallel Lives, Life of Lycurgus, is a collection of anecdotes on the Spartan law-giver, Lycurgus, that provides valuable information about the laws and customs of the Greek city-state. Plutarch, Tiberius Gracchus, chapter 1, section 1.

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