Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 2 by Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (c. 46 - c. 120)
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Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of
biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their
common moral virtues or failings. The surviving lives contain
twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one
Greek and one Roman, as well as four unpaired, single lives.
Plutarch was not concerned with writing histories, as such, but in
exploring the influence of character, good or bad, on the lives and
destinies of famous men. The first pair of lives the
Epaminondas-Scipio Africanus no longer exists, and many of the
remaining lives are truncated, contain obvious lacunae and/or have
been tampered with by later writers. His Life of Alexander is one
of the five surviving secondary or tertiary sources about Alexander
the Great and it includes anecdotes and descriptions of incidents
that appear in no other source. Likewise, his portrait of Numa
Pompilius, an early Roman king, also contains unique information
about the early Roman calendar. In this copyright expired 11-volume
translation from the Loeb Classical library, the order of the
paired lives is rearranged to present the Greek lives in
chronological order. Vol 2 presents the paired lives of
Themistocles and Camillus, Aristides and Cato Major, and Cimon and
Lucullus. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia by Karen Merline.)
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