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The second volume of the Parallel Lives presents a wide selection of Romans and Greeks. The description of Pericles is the depiction of Athens' heyday, while that of Alcibiades frames Athens' defeat in the Peloponnesian War; Alcibiades and Coriolanus are juxtaposed by Plutarch as examples of impulsive traitors, whereas Timoleon and Aemilius Paulus are highlighted as examples of prudence and justice; Timoleon waged war in Sicily against the local autocrats and Carthaginians, while Marcellus conquered Syracuse in an attack during which Archimedes was killed. The book is full of colorful and famous secondary and main characters, and Plutarch narrates with a sense of both factual excursus and colorful anecdotes.
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The title Parallel Lives should be taken quite literally: Plutarch juxtaposes a Greek and a Roman, pointing out similarities and differences. Plutarch not only writes historical biographies that take us through the history of the classical world like pearls on a string, but also tries to derive moral and philosophical points from the lives.
This volume contains translations by S. Tetens (1800-11), V. Ullmann (1876-90) and K. Hude (1909-32).
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