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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.
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 · As already observed, it happens that thirteen of Plutarch's extant Lives are the lives of the most distinguished of the Romans who lived during this eventful period; and though Plutarch's Lives severally are not histories of the times to which they respectively refer, nor collectively form a History of any given time, yet they are ...
Parallel Lives is a collection of biographies structured according to the organizing principles of parallelism and ‘sameness’: each pair of Greek and Roman Lives forms a volume (a book unit), while together the pairs constitute a series.
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May 27, 2024 · Plutarch, biographer and author whose works strongly influenced the evolution of the essay, the biography, and historical writing in Europe from the 16th to the 19th century. Among his approximately 227 works, the most important are Parallel Lives and Moralia, or Ethica.
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Plutarch The Parallel Lives, as translated by John Dryden and others (1683-86), revised and edited by Arthur Hugh Clough (1864).
Parallel Lives, also known as Plutarch's Lives, Comparative Lives, Lives of Illustrious Men, and the Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a book written by the famous writer, philosopher, and priest Plutarch in ancient Rome.
Feb 25, 2016 · Parallel Lives. Plutarch's approach to biographies was to take two historical figures - one Greek and one Roman - and present them in parallel comparison, hence their frequent collective title Parallel Lives.
Noreen Humble. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvvnbtz.4. This volume of essays explores, from various angles, ideas of parallelism in Plutarch’s Lives. I first thought of initiating a reappraisal of the theme when preparing to teach an ancient biography course twelve years ago.
