Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
Author | : Plutarch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2015 |
ISBN-10 | : 1633841227 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781633841222 |
Rating | : 4/5 (222 Downloads) |
Download or read book Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.