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	Parallel Lives - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings.
		The surviving Parallel Lives, as they are more properly and commonly known, contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman, as well as four unpaired, single lives.
		The first pair of Lives—the Epaminondas-Scipio Africanus—no longer exists, and many of the remaining lives are truncated, contain obvious lacunae and/or have been tampered with by later writers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Parallel_Lives (773 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| Aristides by Plutarch
		For Epaminondas, who all the world knows was educated, and lived his whole life in much poverty, and also Plato, the philosopher, exhibited magnificent shows, the one an entertainment of flute-players, the other of dithyrambic singers; Dion, the Syracusan, supplying the expenses of the latter, and Pelopidas those of Epaminondas.
		After this the Greeks determined in council to remove their camp some distance, to possess themselves of a place convenient for watering; because the springs near them were polluted and destroyed by the barbarian cavalry.
		The consequence was that the sea captains and generals of the Greeks, in particular, the Chians, Samians, and Lesbians, came to Aristides and requested him to be their general, and to receive the confederates into his command, who had long desired to relinquish the Spartans and come over to the Athenians.
	classics.mit.edu /Plutarch/aristide.html (5824 words)

	Plutarch
		Born at Chaeronea, Boeotia, in Greece, during the reign of the Roman Emperor Claudius, Plutarch travelled widely in the Mediterranean world, later residing at Rome for an extended period and making friends with influential persons at Rome, to whom some of his later writings were dedicated.
		His most important work is Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings.
		The Parallel Lives, as they are also called, contain 23 pairs of biographies, each pair containing one Greek Life and one Roman Life; as well as 4 unpaired single Lives.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pl/Plutarch.html (318 words)

	Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, by Plutarch (chapter23)
		Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, by Plutarch (chapter23)
		What was indeed truly and really admirable was, that the Romans, after the defeat of so many armies, the slaughter of so many captains, and, in fine, the confusion of almost the whole Roman empire, still showed a courage equal to their losses, and were as willing as their enemies to engage in new battles.
		A noble and happy lot indeed the former, yet there is something higher and greater in the admiration rendered by enemies to the virtue that had been their own obstacle, than in the grateful acknowledgments of friends.
	etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /p/plutarch/lives/chapter23.html (763 words)

	Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, by Plutarch (chapter57)
		But what gave the greatest fear to the nobles was, that he was thought privy to the conspiracy of Catiline, and not to dislike it, because of his great debts.
		He had the surname Sura, and was a man of a noble family, but a dissolute liver, who for his debauchery was formerly turned out of the senate, and was now holding the office of praetor for the second time, as the custom is with those who desire to regain the dignity of senator.
		Clodius was a member of a noble family, in the flower of his youth, and of a bold and resolute temper.
	etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /p/plutarch/lives/chapter57.html (11053 words)

	Colorado Shakespeare Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Brutus represents Romans who were proud of their system and their various roles in it; for the most part, the Republic thrived with few major political upheavals for several hundred years.
		Shakespeare lived in a time when democracy was considered a dangerously unstable system of government; the ruling class of England (nobles, large landowners, and great merchants) had very little respect for the opinions or the needs of the lower classes.
		Shakespeare paints the Roman people as controllable only by those who rule through terror; the institutions of Rome, nominally responsible to the citizenry, are in fact made easier to manipulate because of that responsibility.
	www.coloradoshakes.org /plays/play.cfm?id=147&dirid=7 (1219 words)

	Plutarch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Plutarch, 46-120 CE, Greek historian, philosopher, and biographer.
		Plutarch's most famous work is the Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, usually known simply as the Lives.
		They comprise, in all, forty-six biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen and thinkers who are paired to emphasize similarities that span their respective cultures and historical eras.
	www.english.upenn.edu /Projects/knarf/Plutarch/plutarch.html (95 words)

	Detail Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Plutarch's biography is one of these, and while his account is important and valuable, as he himself states, it was not his purpose to write history.
		The following passage presents a portrait of the young ruler that stresses his confidence and strength of character as he rejects the advice of his councilors and decides to pursue his own course of action.
		In pursuit of this opinion, he reduced the barbarians to tranquility, and put an end to all fear of war from them, by a rapid expedition into their country as far as the river Danube, where he gave Syrmus, king of the Triballians, an entire overthrow.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=ahdoc041 (448 words)

	Cicero
		His family made a killing in what was, basically, a toga-cleaning business: just the sort of detail to raise an eyebrow (and a snicker) as he made his way into the political establishment.
		Drawn to Greek literature and philosophy, he showed a particular interest in the study of rhetoric -- a field that included not only the art of making speeches but a fair bit of what today might be called "social science."
		Cicero's original biographer paired the Roman off with a Greek counterpart, Demosthenes, on the grounds that both had transformed themselves from mediocre public speakers into the greatest orators of their era.
	www.mclemee.com /id26.html (1092 words)

	Mark Antony - Military History Wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Roman general Mark Antony was the scion of a line of Roman politicians bearing his name.
		But resistance from the conservative faction of the Roman senate, led by Pompey, demanded that Caesar resign his proconsulship and the command of his armies before he be allowed to seek re-election to the consulship.
		Many date the beginning of the Roman Empire to the battle of Actium; however, the Empire can also be considered to date from the death of Augustus in 14 AD, with the succession of Tiberius.
	www.militaryhistorywiki.org /index.php?title=Mark_Antony (2533 words)

	Journal of Power and Ethics, Vol. 1, no. 1
		He was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of men and the worst of men, the most protean, most ridiculous, and most sublime.
		But while one can learn much about living well by reading the biographies of those who have already done so, another central component of virtue ethics is the importance of real-life, flesh-and-blood role models and mentors to show us what it means to live virtuously.
		And he also explains why this is true in terms of the common good: “To sacrifice even life is a clear duty of legal justice, because the life of the community in the order of the common good is a higher form of life than is the bodily life of an individual” (Rommen, 1945: p.
	spaef.com /JPE_PUB/1_1/v1n1_lutz.html (8614 words)

	Virgilia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Virgilia is the wife of Coriolanus in William Shakespeare's play Coriolanus (1607–1610), in which same play Volumnia is his mother.
		With respect to the legendary figure Gaius Marcius Coriolanus, some accounts (Brewer 1898) say that his wife's name was actually Volumnia, probably following the Roman historian Livy.
		However, in the very influential account of his life, and one familiar to Shakespeare, namely, Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, the wife's name is Virgilia, or in John Dryden's translation, Vergilia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Virgilia (132 words)

	Constitutionally Speaking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Greek historian-biographer Plutarch, writing approximately a hundred years after the birth of Christ, captured a provocative picture of the Lacedaemon world and of its founder.
		In Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, Plutarch recorded an undoubtedly mythologized, but nonetheless remarkable account of a man named Lycurgus (lie-KUR-gus).
		Such laws belong in the hearts of the population, not on musty shelves; for the laws themselves were living -- "organic" is a still better term.
	www.ume.maine.edu /~pubadmin/kn/words/lycur3.htm (2353 words)

	Random House Publishing Group \| The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume I by Plutarch
		Plutarch's 'Parallel Lives,' written at the beginning of the second century A.D., form a brilliant social history of the ancient world.
		They were originally presented in a series of books that gave an account of one Greek and one Roman life, followed by a comparison of the two: Theseus and Romulus, Alcibiades and Coriolanus, Demosthenes and Cicero, Demetrius and Antony.
		In addition to the Parallel Lives of celebrated Greeks and Romans, which he produced late in his career, he wrote essays and dialogues on an immense range of subjects, collected in the Moralia.
	www.randomhouse.com /rhpg/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679641742&view=ebhelp (551 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: About Julius Caesar
		Julius Caesar was a Roman general who had made a name for himself through his successful campaigning of northwest Europe.
		His description of the Roman Republic stated that it was ruled by at least one or more powerful men, yet rarely more than a few men.
		When Antony calls Brutus, "the noblest of the Romans," he is referring to the specific "Roman" virtue, associated with the Republican government Brutus dies defending.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/julius_caesar/about.html (1219 words)

	Amazon.com: Plutarch: Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans (Modern Library Series, Vol. 1): Books: Plutarch,Arthur Hugh ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The structure of the book is such that an account of the seminal moments in the life of a noble Greek and then of a noble Roman are brought forth in pairs, followed by a comparison.
		He was a proud Greek that was equally effected by Roman culture, a Delphic priest, a leading Platonist, a moralist, educator and philosopher with a deep commitment as a first rate writer.
		Being a Roman citizen, Plutarch was afforded the opportunity to become an intimate friend to prominent Roman citizens and a member of the literary elite in the court of Emperor Trajan.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679600086?v=glance (2398 words)

	Wikinfo \| Plutarch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Born at Chaeronea, Boeotia, in ancient Greece, during the reign of the Roman Emperor Claudius, Plutarch travelled widely in the Mediterranean world, later residing at Rome for an extended period and making friends with influential persons at Rome, to whom some of his later writings were dedicated.
		the e-text: Arthur Hugh Clough's translation of Plutarch - Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans
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	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Plutarch (392 words)

	Coriolanus (play) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Tragedy of Coriolanus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, based on the life of the legendary Roman leader.
		Shakespeare's play was largely based on the Life of Coriolanus as it was described in Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans and Livy's Ab Urbe condita.
		The rioters are particularly angry at Caius Martius, a brilliant Roman general whom they blame for the grain being taken away.
	www.1bx.com /en/Coriolanus_(play).htm (967 words)

	Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans by Plutarch, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 0460004093 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Noble Lives and Noble Deeds: Forty Lessons by Vari...
		Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (By Thomas North,Plutarchus)
		Plutarch: Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans (Mode...
	www.bookfinder4u.com /detail/0460004093.html (299 words)

	Animal Aid Campaigns : Veggie Poll
		Several notable Ancient Greek writers had vegetarian sympathies, but none wrote with such force and passion as the biographer whose Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans provided the stories for several of Shakespeare's plays.
		Although it seems that the famous physicist only became a practising vegetarian towards the end of his life, he was convinced of the spiritual advantages of a plant-based diet long before.
		He was a vegetarian and committed to extending the circle of compassion to all living beings.
	www.animalaid.org.uk /campaign/vegan/greats.htm (1660 words)

	Julius Caesar (Everyman Paperback Classics) by J.M. Dent & Sons
		Shakespeare based the source material for the play on a translation of a work by the Greek philosopher and biographer Plutarch, called "The lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans".
		The Romans were then aware that absolute power is open to abuse (there are people today who still do not know this simple fact).
		In the course of the play, Brutus is led to believe and becomes convinced that in doing a most dishonorable act, he is doing the most honorable thing he possibly can to save Rome and all the ideals he has staked his life upon.
	www.naturalskincare.ws /stuff-0460873962.html (1505 words)

	Detail Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		By the mid-fifth century, he and Athens were at the height of their powers and Pericles believed that Athens should serve as a symbol of Greek military and cultural superiority.
		As then grew the works up, no less stately in size than exquisite in form, the workmen striving to outvie the material and the design with the beauty of their workmanship, yet the most wonderful thing of all was the rapidity of their execution.
		Text Citation: "Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans: Life of Pericles (excerpt)." Facts On File, Inc. Ancient History & Culture.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=ahdoc044 (636 words)

	SparkNotes: Julius Caesar: Context
		Shakespeare’s contemporaries, well versed in ancient Greek and Roman history, would very likely have detected parallels between Julius Caesar’s portrayal of the shift from republican to imperial Rome and the Elizabethan era’s trend toward consolidated monarchal power.
		In 1599, when the play was first performed, Queen Elizabeth I had sat on the throne for nearly forty years, enlarging her power at the expense of the aristocracy and the House of Commons.
		Plutarch, who believed that history was propelled by the achievements of great men, saw the role of the biographer as inseparable from the role of the historian.
	www.sparknotes.com /shakespeare/juliuscaesar/context.html (948 words)

	Classics, Greek, and Latin
		This department offers courses and programs of instruction in Latin and Greek (both ancient and modern), in the Classical literature of these languages in English translation, and in aspects of Greek and Roman culture.
		ANCIENT GREEK AND LATIN: Under Plans A and B, a minimum of twelve credits in course work is required in each language (ancient Greek and Latin) exclusive of Greek or Latin 8999 or 7999.
		CLA 5350 -- (CLA 3350) Plutarch: Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans: Cr.
	www.bulletins.wayne.edu /gbk-output/lib13.html (1046 words)

	Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
		Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
		¶ Plutarch wrote, in Greek, his Lives toward the end of his own long life (c.
		A.D. ¶ He starts his Life of Alexander, "My design is not to write histories, but lives," a fair description of the work which is less biography than study in character and its consequences.
	www.bostonleadershipbuilders.com /plutarch (200 words)

	PH@school: Literature: Author Biographies
		The poem is an allegorical romance, in which a series of knights strive to attain the virtues of holiness, temperance, chastity, friendship, justice, and courtesy.
		In England, the humanizing influence of classical Greek and Roman literature was most evident in the work of scholar-statesmen such as Thomas More (1478–1535), the German-born painter Hans Holbein (1497–1543), and the schoolmaster Roger Ascham (1515–1568), who served as tutor to the young Elizabeth.
		In the second half of the sixteenth century, manuals of rhetoric and dictionaries began to appear, testifying to a new awareness of the power of language.
	www.phschool.com /atschool/literature/author_biographies/spenser_e.html (668 words)

	Gateway to the Vast Realms -- History
		His terse narrative makes only one concession to dramaticality: In order to set out the conflicting interests with the greatest clarity, he composes speeches for the statesmen, generals, ambassadors and other key protagonists, presenting their arguments perhaps even more cogently than they actually did (what they would have said had they been totally lucid).
		I followed Rexroth’s recommendation and read the lively Elizabethan translation by Sir Thomas North, which Shakespeare cribbed from for his Roman plays, but there are several modern versions if that’s more to your taste.
		The great Roman historians are not quite so essential, but they still make interesting reading, each in their very different ways.
	www.bopsecrets.org /gateway/history.htm (1843 words)

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