![]() ![]() Production notes: This ebook of Plutarch’s Lives was published by Global Grey in 2018. ![]() This book has 1,755 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1864. Part of the Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Great Books of the Western World set. Plutarch’s Lives, word for word, is the most efficient and comprehensive introduction to the ancient Greek and Roman world, its greatest ideas and achievements, and its most famous personalities. 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. Its the 'key text' for understanding an entire culture, mindset, religion, and philosophical way of life. 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. Plutarch (/plutrk/ Greek:, Ploútarkhos, Koine Greek: plutarkos later named, upon becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (. 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. Plutarch’s Lives PlutarchĪvailable to download for free in PDF, epub, and Kindle ebook formats. ![]()
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