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Parallel Lives

Plutarch

Hardcover | Pages: 1309 pages

Rating: 4.12 | 1415 Users | 67 Reviews

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Title	:	Parallel Lives
Author	:	Plutarch
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 1309 pages
Published	:	August 12th 1977 by Modern Library (first published 100)
Categories	:	History. Classics. Biography. Nonfiction. Philosophy

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Plutarch's Parallel Lives is a series of biographies, arranged in pairs illuminating virtues & vices. Surviving Lives contain 23 pairs, each with a Greek & a Roman Life, & 4 unpaired Lives. As explained in the opening of his Life of Alexander, he wasn't concerned with history so much as the influence of character on life & destiny. Whereas sometimes he barely touched on great events, he devoted much space to anecdote & incidental triviality, this often telling more about his subjects than their famous accomplishments. He sought to provide rounded portraits, likening his craft to painting. Indeed, he went to great (often tenuous) length to draw parallels between physical appearance & character. He's amongst the earliest moral philosophers. Some of the Lives, like those of Heracles, Philip II of Macedon & Scipio Africanus, are lost. Many remaining Lives are truncated, contain lacunae or have been tampered with. Extant are those on Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Pericles, Alcibiades, Nicias, Demosthenes, Pelopidas, Philopoemen, Timoleon, Dion of Syracuse, Alexander the Great, Pyrrhus of Epirus, Romulus, Numa Pompilius, Coriolanus, Theseus, Aemilius Paullus, Tiberius Gracchus, Gaius Gracchus, Gaius Marius, Sulla, Sertorius, Lucullus, Pompey, Julius Caesar, Cicero, Cato the Younger, Mark Antony & Marcus Junius Brutus.

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Original Title:	Βίοι Παράλληλοι
ISBN:	0394604075 (ISBN13: 9780394604077)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 4.12 From 1415 Users | 67 Reviews

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I'm not sure this is the best compilation of Plutarch's biographies, but it does include his "greatest hits" including Themistocles who was of the most interest to me at the time of purchase.

I'm still in the process of reading Parallel Lives. While I am about 900 pages in or about halfway through, I have to say the translation I am reading is degrading fast. I am undertaking the admittedly questionable task of reading this collection aloud, and seem to find myself stumbling over cloddishly put-together sentences more and more, some of which do not even appear to make any grammatical sense, but seem to rely more on some sort of intuition on the part of the reader to determine the

1400 pages of Stories the Jedi wouldn't tell you.

An interesting insight into the lives of some of the most powerful and influential men in history. It's a nice read for anybody, who's interested in the subject.

A lot of the lives are kind of tedious, but certain of them are so good. I got a lot of great quotes and a better understanding of Greek and Roman history from this book. There are also a lot of tips about how to be virtuous, and Plutarch's digressions into old stories and fables are always pretty amusing, as well as the way that he'll often directly address the reader (usually to apologize for expounding too much on one topic.)

Well written historyThis book is not a light read with fluff . It is chock full of an enormous history of Greeks, Romans and other famous anchients. Many did mom Comes were mentioned such as Sparticus, Xeres, Cleopatra, and Hanibal. It dazzled me with all the information given.

i just read the bit about crassus and spartacus, both we were really cool examples of incredible men. i mean, for your name to last that long, fuck you were cool. fuck steve jobs.