What is Parallel Lives?
'''Parallel Lives''', also known as '''Plutarch's Lives''', '''Comparative Lives''', '''Lives of Illustrious Men''', and the '''Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans''' is a book written by the famous [[writer]], [[Philosophy|philosopher]], and [[priest]] [[Plutarch]] in ancient Rome. The book reads about many pairs, which these pairs are [[biographies]] (stories of people's lives) of one [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] man and one [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] man of a similar life for every pair. These pairs are set to show moral goods and moral bads in the people [[Plutarch]] writes about. there are 23 pairs of stories, and 4 biographies that are unpaired, but Plutarch still wrote. There are many biographies, so they are often shown in many [[Volume (bibliography)|volumes]]. Some of the pairs include [[Demosthenes]] and [[Cicero]], [[Julius Caesar]] and [[Alexander the Great]], and [[Theseus]] and [[Romulus and Remus|Romulus]]. == Content == A pair of Biographies, originally about [[Epaminondas]] and either [[Scipio Africanus]] or [[Scipio Aemilianus]] has been lost to history. Other lives have been shortened and have large [[lacunae]] (gaps), and/or have been messed with by writers of later times. An example of Plutarch's Lives being important is Plutarch's life of Alexander the Great, which is one of the only writings about Alexander the Great, despite being a [[Secondary source|secondary]] or [[tertiary source]]. It has parts of Alexander's life that no other source has. This is also the same with the life of [[Numa Pompilius]], which has unique details on the early [[Roman calendar|ancient Roman calendar]]. Plutarch's writings have been celebrated for the liveliness and warmth of his Parallel Lives. Parallel Lives has gotten a large group of readers throughout its existence. == Other websites == {{Wikisource}} {{Wikisourcelang|el|Βίοι Παράλληλοι}} * [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/home.html University of Chicago English text of Plutarch's ''Parallel Lives''.] * {{librivox book | tit