He was born, probably, in the reign of Claudius, about ad 45 or 50. The plain facts of Plutarch’s own life may be given in a very short compass. In the very first page, for example, of the book, in the life of Theseus, mention occurs of the lives of Lycurgus and Numa, as already written. And the reader will notice for himself that references made here Edition: current Page: and there in the extant lives, show that their original order was different from the present. Many of the comparisons are wanting, have either been lost, or were not completed. There was a Book containing those of Epaminondas and Scipio the younger. In the Parallel Lives themselves there are gaps. Artaxerxes and Aratus the statesman are detached narratives, like others which once, we are told, existed, - Hercules, Aristomenes, Hesiod, Pindar, Daiphantus, Crates the cynic, and Aratus the poet. Otho and Galba belonged, probably, to a series of Roman Emperors from Augustus to Vitellius. To the proper work, the Parallel Lives, narrated in a series of Books, each containing the accounts of one Greek and one Roman, followed by a Comparison, some single lives have been appended, for no reason but that they are also biographies. The collection so well known as “Plutarch’s Lives,” is neither in form nor in arrangement what its author left behind him. 609Įdition: current Page: Edition: current Page: Index for reference as to the Pronunciation of Proper Names.
Index of Historical and Geographical Proper Names.Comparison of Marcus Brutus with Dion.Comparison of Cicero with Demosthenes.Comparison of Tiberius and Caius Gracchus with Agis and Cleomenes.Comparison of Flamininus with Philopœmen.Comparison of Cato the Elder with Aristides.Comparison of Marcellus with Pelopidas.Comparison of Æmilius Paulus with Timoleon.Comparison of Coriolanus with Alcibiades.
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