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.
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Parallel Lives Vol. 1
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.
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Parallel Lives Vol. 1
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Parallel Lives Vol. 1
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781617206511 |
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| Publisher: | Wilder Publications |
| Publication date: | 02/17/2012 |
| Pages: | 386 |
| Sales rank: | 707,688 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.86(d) |
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