Parallel Lives Vol. 3

Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives is a series of biographies of famous men arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving Parallel Lives contain twenty-three pairs of biographies each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman as well as four unpaired single lives. It is a work of considerable importance not only as a source of information about the individuals biographized but also about the times in which they lived.