Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans

Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans by Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (as translated by Bernadotte Perrin) Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Roman, by Plutarch, is a series of biographies of famous Greek and Roman men and is also commonly referred to as simply Parallel Lives or Plutarch’s Lives. Plutarch carefully orchestrated his biographies so that the life of a famous Roman would precede the life of a famous Greek. Plutarch wrote 26 of these biographical pairs plus four unpaired bi...