Bibliograph

Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans complete, by Plutarch

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Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans complete, by Plutarch

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans complete

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

by Plutarch

Summary

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. The surviving Parallel Lives, contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman, as well as four unpaired, single lives. It is a work of considerable importance, not only as a source of information about the individuals biographized, but also about the times in which they lived

Target audience

adult

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