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Engraving facing the title page of an 18th-century edition of Plutarch's Lives. The Parallel Lives (Ancient Greek: Βίοι Παράλληλοι, Bíoi Parállēloi; Latin: Vītae Parallēlae) is a series of 48 biographies of famous men written in Greek by the Greco-Roman philosopher, historian, and Apollonian priest Plutarch, probably at the beginning of the second century.
Plutarch's best-known work is the Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of illustrious Greeks and Romans, arranged in pairs to illuminate their common moral virtues and vices, thus it being more of an insight into human nature than a historical account.
Sir Thomas North (28 May 1535 – c. 1604) was an English translator, military officer, lawyer, and justice of the peace. His translation into English of Plutarch's Parallel Lives is notable for being the main source text used by William Shakespeare for his Roman plays.
In 1559, Plutarch's Parallel Lives were translated into French by Jacques Amyot, whose work was in turn translated into English by Sir Thomas North. William Shakespeare only read Plutarch from North's version, and he was his only source for his plays Julius Caesar (1599), Coriolanus (1605–1608), and Antony and Cleopatra (1607).
Plutarch, Parallel Lives, "Life of {{{1}}}" ([[s:Plutarch's Lives (Clough)/Life_of_{{{1}}}#1:1 |ed.Clough 1859]]; ed. Loeb). This template generates a citation of one of Plutarch's Parallel Lives, with hyperlinks to the Loeb edition (on Bill Thayer's penelope.uchicago.edu) and the Clough/Dryden edition (on Wikisource).
Phocion (/ ˈ f oʊ ʃ i ən,-ˌ ɒ n /; Ancient Greek: Φωκίων Φώκου Ἀθηναῖος Phokion; c. 402 – c. 318 BC), nicknamed The Good (ὁ χρηστός, was an Athenian statesman and strategos, and the subject of one of Plutarch's Parallel Lives. Phocion was a successful politician of Athens. He believed that extreme frugality ...
Life of Caesar (Plutarch) M. Moralia; O. ... Parallel Lives This page was last edited on 1 July 2023, at 23:40 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Xenophontos, Sophia A. "Plutarch's Compositional Technique in the An seni respublica gerenda sit: Clusters vs. Patterns." American journal of philology (2012): 61–91. Xenophontos, Sophia. "Comedy in Plutarch’s Parallel Lives." Greek Roman and Byzantine Studies 52, no. 4 (2012): 603–631. Xenophontos, Sophia.
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