![]() ![]() ![]() It's also considered the Trope Maker and Trope Codifier for the "biography" as a genre. It's especially celebrated for being one of the key sources for Alexander the Great. It is one of the most important secondary sources for Ancient Greece, The Roman Republic and a primary source for the early empire. The conceit of the work is to match one Greek biography with a Roman biography, based on Plutarch's perceived similarity between the two figures, and finish it with a comparison where Plutarch analyses each subject's common points, strengths, weaknesses, virtues, and vices. Also known as Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans or Plutarch's Lives after its author, Parallel Lives is a series of biographical essays written in Greek by the historian Plutarch (46-120 CE) during The Roman Empire. ![]()
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