Parallel Lives. Plutarch

       Plutarch

      Parallel Lives

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       Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans - Volume 1

       Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans - Volume 2

Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans - Volume 1

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       Theseus

       Romulus

       Comparison of Romulus with Theseus

       Lycurgus

       Numa Pompilius

       Comparison of Numa with Lycurgus

       Solon

       Poplicola

       Comparison of Poplicola with Solon

       Themistocles

       Camillus

       Pericles

       Fabius

       Comparison of Pericles with Fabius

       Alcibiades

       Coriolanus

       Comparison of Alcibiades with Coriolanus

       Timoleon

       Aemilius Paulus

       Comparison of Timoleon with Aemilius Paulus

       Pelopidas

       Marcellus

       Comparison of Pelopidas with Marcellus

       Aristides

       Marcus Cato

       Comparison of Aristides with Marcus Cato.

       Philopoemen

       Flamininus

       Comparison of Philopoemen with Flamininus

       Pyrrhus

       Caius Marius

       Lysander

       Sylla

       Comparison of Lysander with Sylla

       Cimon

       Lucullus

       Comparison of Lucullus with Cimon

      Theseus

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      As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect, that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, unapproachable bogs, Scythian ice, or a frozen sea, so, in this work of mine, in which I have compared the lives of the greatest men with one another, after passing through those periods which probable reasoning can reach to and real history find a footing in, I might very well say of those that are farther off, Beyond this there is nothing but prodigies and fictions, the only inhabitants are the poets and inventors of fables; there is no credit, or certainty any farther. Yet, after publishing an account of Lycurgus the lawgiver and Numa the king, I thought I might, not without reason, ascend as high as to Romulus, being brought by my history so near to his time.

      Considering therefore with myself

      Whom shall I set so great a man to face?

       Or whom oppose? who’s equal to the place?

      (as Aeschylus expresses it), I found none so fit as him that peopled the beautiful and far-famed city of Athens, to be set in opposition with the father of the invincible and renowned city of Rome. Let us hope that Fable may, in what shall follow, so submit to the purifying processes of Reason as to take the character of exact history. In any case, however, where it shall be found contumaciously slighting credibility, and refusing to be reduced to anything like probable fact, we shall beg that we may meet with candid readers, and such as will receive with indulgence the stories of antiquity.

      Theseus seemed to me to resemble Romulus in