Title: Plutarch’s Lives of the Most Select and Illustrious Characters of Antiquity
Author: Plutarch, John & William Langhorne (trans), William Mavor (trans)
ISBN: –
Publisher: WC Borradaile, 1832. Rare. First American edition.
Condition: Hardcover, full leather. Wear according to age, but firmly bound. Foxed throughout. Front flyleaf tender, but the rest is in good share for its age.
Plutarch, born Plutarchos (Greek: Πλούταρχος) then named, on his becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (Μέστριος Πλούταρχος), c. 46 – 120 CE, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia. He was born to a prominent family in Chaeronea, Boeotia, a town about twenty miles east of Delphi.
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.
The surviving Parallel Lives [in Greek: Βίοι Παράλληλοι (Bíoi Parállēloi)], as they are more properly and commonly known, 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.
This edition contains:
Romulus
Lycurgus
Numa
Solon
Themistocles
Camillus
Pericles
Alcibiades
Timoleon
Aristides
Cato the Censor
Pyrrhus
Eumenes
Pompey
Alexander
Julius Caesar
Demosthenes
Cicero
Demosthenes and Cicero Compared
An Account of Weights and Measures
Denominations of Money
Table of Proper Names
