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A foundational work of comparative biography, pairing Greek and Roman lives to illuminate character, ambition, and public virtue.

In Parallel Lives, Plutarch sets notable figures of Greece beside their Roman counterparts, using biography not merely to preserve events, but to examine temperament, judgement, and the moral pressures of leadership. The result is a sequence of portraits-statesmen, generals, reformers-rendered with a biographer's eye for telling detail and a philosopher's interest in motive.

Volume 1 opens the series in its intended form: lives presented with narrative clarity, followed by implicit (and sometimes explicit) comparison, inviting the reader to consider how private disposition shapes public consequence across two civilisations.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781515428176
  • ISBN-10: 1515428176
  • Publisher: SMK Books
  • Publish Date: April 2018
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.62 pounds
  • Page Count: 386

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