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Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans by Plutarch

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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. The surviving Parallel Lives
(Greek: ???? ??????????, B?oi Par?ll?loi) comprises 23 pairs of
biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman of similar
destiny, such as Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, or Demosthenes
and Cicero. It is a work of considerable importance, not only as a
source of information about the individuals described, but also about
the times in which they lived.

Plutarch (c. AD 46-AD 120) was
born to a prominent family in the small Greek town of Chaeronea, about
20 miles east of Delphi in the region known as Boeotia. His best known
work is 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. Currently only
19 of the parallel lives end with comparisons while possibly all of
them did at one time.

Plutarch was not concerned with history so
much as the influence of character, good or bad, on the lives and
destinies of men. Whereas sometimes he barely touched on epoch-making
events, he devoted much space to charming anecdotes and incidental
triviality, reasoning that this often revealed far more about his
subjects than even their most famous accomplishments. In many ways he
must be counted among the earliest moral philosophers.

This volume follows the translation of Arthur Hugh Clough and John Dryden.

  1. Theseus (38.7Mb)
  2. Romulus (46.6Mb)
  3. Lycurgus (45.5Mb)
  4. Numa Pompilus (42.9Mb)
  5. Solon (35.5Mb)
  6. Poplicola (28.9Mb)
  7. Themistocles (39.4Mb)
  8. Camillus (49.9Mb)
  9. Pericles (55.1Mb)
  10. Fabius (38.3Mb)
  11. Alcibiades (51.5Mb)
  12. Coriolanus (54.8Mb)
  13. Timoleon (49.2Mb)
  14. Aemilius Paulus (46.6Mb)
  15. Pelopidas (38.4Mb)
  16. Marcellus (41.8Mb)
  17. Aristides (35.6Mb)
  18. Marcus Cato (43.5Mb)
  19. Philopoemen (24.4Mb)
  20. Flamininus (31.5Mb)
  21. Pyrrhus (48.3Mb)
  22. Caius Marius (53.9Mb)
  23. Lysander (35.8Mb)
  24. Sylla (54.3Mb)
  25. Cimon (26.9Mb)
  26. Lucullus (59.6Mb)
  27. Nicias (40.2Mb)
  28. Crassus (49.2Mb)
  29. Sertorius (33.1Mb)
  30. Eumenes (25.6Mb)
  31. Agesilaus (47.7Mb)
  32. Pompey (106.1Mb)
  33. Alexander (93.5Mb)
  34. Caesar (71.3Mb)
  35. Phocion (39.6Mb)
  36. Cato the Younger (72.1Mb)
  37. Agis (21.4Mb)
  38. Cleomenes (38.3Mb)
  39. Tiberius Gracchus (24Mb)
  40. Caius Gracchus (25.7Mb)
  41. Demosthenes (33.5Mb)
  42. Cicero (56.3Mb)
  43. Demetrius (57.7Mb)
  44. Antony (88.9Mb)
  45. Dion (55.7Mb)
  46. Marcus Brutus (61.7Mb)
  47. Aratus (52.1Mb)
  48. Artaxerxes (34.7Mb)
  49. Galba (28.4Mb)
  50. Otho (18.6Mb)

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