Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 1
Author: first_name: Lucius Mestrius
last_name: Plutarchus
Language: English
Year: 1914

Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving lives, contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman, as well as four unpaired, single lives.<br><br>

Plutarch was not concerned with writing histories, as such, but in exploring the influence of character, good or bad, on the lives and destinies of famous men. The first pair