Plutarch’s Lives

Plutarch’s Lives
Author: Plutarch
Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Total Pages: 1988
Release: 2021-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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, written in the late 1st century. 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.

Plutarch's Lives

Plutarch's Lives
Author: Tim Duff
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780199252749

This book lucidly explains how the Parallel Lives of Plutarch (c. AD 45-120) are more than mere `sources' for history. The Lives offer us a unique insight into the reception of Classical Greece and Republican Rome in the Greek world of the second century AD. They also explore and challenge issues of psychology, education, morality, and cultural identity.

Plutarch's Lives

Plutarch's Lives
Author: Noreen Humble
Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2010-12-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1910589233

Plutarch's Parallel Lives were written to compare famous Greeks and Romans. This most obvious aspect of their parallelism is frequently ignored in the drive to mine Plutarch for historical fact. However, the eleven contributors to the present volume, who include most of the world's leading commentators on Plutarch, together bring out many ways in which Plutarch invoked aspects of parallelism. They show how pervasive and how central the whole notion was to his thinking. With new analysis of the synkriseis; with discussion of parallels within and across the Lives and in the Moralia; with an examination of why the basic parallel structure of the Lives lost its importance in the Renaissance, this volume presents fresh ideas on a neglected topic crucial to Plutarch's literary creation.

Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans

Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans
Author: Plutarch
Publisher: anboco
Total Pages: 2336
Release: 2016-08-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3736409672

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, probably written at the beginning of the second century AD. The surviving Parallel Lives comprises 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 described, but also about the times in which they lived.

The Complete Works of Plutarch. Parallel Lives. Moralia. Illustrated

The Complete Works of Plutarch. Parallel Lives. Moralia. Illustrated
Author: Plutarch
Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Total Pages: 7863
Release: 2021-09-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

Plutarch created a diverse range of works that have entertained generations of readers since the days of Imperial Rome. Plutarch's writings had an enormous influence on English and French literature. Plutarch was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo. He is known primarily for his Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of illustrious Greeks and Romans, and Moralia, a collection of essays and speeches.

Latin Biography

Latin Biography
Author: T A Dorey
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2023-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000999130

First published in 1967, Latin Biography contains chapters on Nepos, Plutarch and Suetonius, the three best-known Classical biographers. There are also accounts of the less-familiar works of Q. Curtius Rufus and the author – or authors – of the Historia Augusta, and three chapters deal with the development of Latin biography in the Middle Ages. The Middle Ages were indebted to Suetonius, Shakespeare to Plutarch, Gibbon to the Historia Augusta. Since the Renaissance their methods have gradually been superseded by a more critical and scientific approach, but the ancient biographers can always claim the credit for having established biography as a major form of literature. This book will be of interest to students of literature and classical studies.

English Translations from the Greek

English Translations from the Greek
Author: Finley Melville Kendall Foster
Publisher: Columbia University Studies in English and Comparative Literature
Total Pages: 188
Release: 1918
Genre: History
ISBN:

A bibliography of English translations, from the establishment of Caxton's printing press in 1476 to the early 20th century, of Ancient Greek texts to 200 A.D.