Parallel Lives
Βίοι Παράλληλοι
A classic of antiquity. First published AD 110, written in Ancient Greek
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 the common moral virtues or failings of their subjects.
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Later works that draw on Parallel Lives.
Julius CaesarGreat book
William Shakespeare, AD 1623
Shakespeare found his Caesar, Brutus and Antony in Plutarch's Lives, in Thomas North's 1579 translation, and followed it closely, from the soothsayer's warning to the ghost that visits Brutus before Philippi.
Source: Wikipedia, Julius Caesar (play)
“The main source of the play is Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Lives.” Read it there
