The second volume of Plutarchs enduring series of paired Greek and Roman biographies, examining character through the lens of power and public action.In Parallel Lives, Plutarch continues his method of moral comparison, setting eminent Greeks beside their Roman counterparts to explore courage, ambition, restraint, and excess. Rather than offering simple chronicles, these biographies focus on the habits of mind and temperament that shaped decisive moments in ancient history. Military campaigns, political reforms, rivalries, and revolutions are rendered as expressions of individual character.Volume 2 advances the sequence with additional lives that deepen the central inquiry of the work how virtue and flaw coexist within leadership, and how private disposition becomes public destiny. Written in the early centuries of the Roman Empire, Parallel Lives remains one of the most influential works of classical biography and a cornerstone of Western historical thought.

Binding: Hardcover;340 pages; Publisher: Wilder Publications; Classification: N/A; Weight: 789.05 g; Dimensions: N/A

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