Volume 3 of Plutarch’s Parallel Lives continues the ancient Greek historian’s monumental project of pairing biographies of great Greeks with their Roman counterparts to draw moral lessons from history. Each paired life places figures of comparable achievement and character side by side, illuminating both through the comparison.
For centuries Plutarch was simply called “the biographer,” and these lives shaped the historical imagination of Shakespeare, Montaigne, and countless others. Download this free EPUB and read the ancient world’s greatest biographical series.