Βίοι Παράλληλοι

aka Vītae Parallēlae

Parallel Lives

Author

Plutarch

Language

Koine Greek

Year

100

Country

Roman Empire

Genre

Biography / Memoir / Reportage

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The Parallel Lives is a series of 48 biographies of famous men written in Greek by the Greco-Roman philosopher, historian, and Apollonian priest Plutarch, probably at the beginning of the second century. The lives are arranged in pairs to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings.