{"product_id":"9781614303268","title":"The Complete Collection of Plutarch's Parallel Lives","description":"\u003cb\u003ePlutarch was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist known primarily for his \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eParallel Lives\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e and \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMoralia\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003eThanks to his writings and lectures Plutarch became a celebrity in the Roman Empire. At his country estate, guests from all over the empire congregated for serious conversation, presided over by Plutarch in his marble chair. Many of these dialogues were recorded and published, and the 78 essays and other works which have survived are now known collectively as the \u003ci\u003eMoralia\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlutarch’s best-known work is the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eParallel Lives\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, a series of biographies of famous Greeks and Romans, arranged in pairs to illuminate their common moral virtues and vices. The surviving \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLives\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e contain 23 pairs, each with one Greek \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLife\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e and one Roman \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLife\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, as well as four unpaired single \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLives\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e Some of the \u003ci\u003eLives\u003c\/i\u003e, such as those of Heracles, Philip II of Macedon and Scipio Africanus, no longer exist; many of the remaining \u003ci\u003eLives\u003c\/i\u003e are truncated, contain obvious lacunae or have been tampered with by later writers. Extant \u003ci\u003eLives\u003c\/i\u003e include those on Aristides, Pericles, Pompey, Julius Caesar, Cicero, Cato the Younger, Mark Antony, and Marcus Junius Brutus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlutarch also wrote a series of biographies, including the biographies of Demetrius, Pyrrhus, Agis and Cleomenes, Aratus and Artaxerxes, Philopoemen, Camillus, Marcellus, Flamininus, Aemilius Paulus, Galba and Otho. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Acheron Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47134238146800,"sku":"9781614303268","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781614303268_p0.jpg?v=1763849292","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781614303268","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}