Plutarch, later named, on his becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, c. 46 - 120 AD, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia. Plutarch lived most of his life at Chaeronea, and his duties...
ONE OF THE FEW COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED EDITIONS OF PLUTARCH'S LIVES--all fifty biographies, and eighteen comparisons. "I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my power or possessions." Plutarch...
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...
Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans is a series of biographies, arranged in pairs illuminating virtues & vices. As explained in the opening of his Life of Alexander, he wasn't concerned with history so much as the influence of character on life & destiny. Whereas...
ONE OF THE FEW COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED EDITIONS OF PLUTARCH'S LIVES--all fifty biographies, and eighteen comparisons. "To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our...
Plutarch's Lives is a collection of biographies written by the ancient Greek historian Plutarch. This volume, V12 of the Harvard Classics series, contains a selection of Plutarch's biographies of notable figures from ancient Greece and Rome, including Alexander the Great, Julius...
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