Parallel Lives Vol. 3 - Hardcover

Plutarch

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 151542815X ISBN 13: 9781515428152

Publisher: SMK Books, 2018

Synopsis

The third volume of Plutarch's masterwork of classical biography, pairing Greek and Roman figures to examine the moral texture of leadership.

In Parallel Lives, Plutarch refines biography into a study of character under pressure. Each life considers not only public deeds-campaigns, reforms, rivalries-but the private impulses that animated them. By placing a Greek statesman beside a Roman counterpart, he invites comparison: courage and caution, ambition and restraint, clemency and severity. History becomes a laboratory for ethical reflection.

Volume 3 continues this disciplined sequence, presenting additional paired portraits that reveal how temperament shapes power and how small personal habits can alter the course of nations. Composed in the early Roman Empire yet drawing upon centuries of Greek and Roman history, Parallel Lives remains foundational to classical studies, political thought, and the art of biography.

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About the Author

Plutarch of Chaeronea (c. 45-120 CE) was a Greek biographer, essayist, and Platonist philosopher whose writings profoundly influenced Western historical and literary traditions. His Parallel Lives shaped Renaissance humanism and informed the dramatic characterizations of later writers, including Shakespeare. Through careful narrative and moral inquiry, Plutarch established biography as a serious vehicle for ethical and historical reflection.

Edition details

• Publisher: SMK Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 151542815X
• ISBN 13: 9781515428152
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 386