Year/Century: 16th century
Language: Latin
Subject: History
Binding: Leather
Description: [Handwritten by Estienne] Plutarchi Chaeronensis Parallela, Parallel Life. Hon. No date, but well-known edition from 1572 Graesse V, 354; Brunet IV, 733. Stephanus [Geneve], [1572] Size 4 1/4 by 6 1/2" 3 volumes (Volume I of Parallel Lives and Volume II of Moralia) Bound in full calf, embossed corners, gilt spine. Text in Latin. Some leather wear. One board detached. Good interior. Title page in Volume one only. Plutarch was a Greek Middle Platonian philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. He lived from approximately AD 46 to after AD 119. His two most well-known works are Parallel Lives, which is a series of biographies of notable Greek and Roman citizens, and Moralia, which is an assortment of speeches and writings. After he became a citizen of Rome, he may have adopted the name Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus. The Parallel Lives, a collection of biographies of notable Greek and Roman figures paired up to highlight their shared moral virtues and vices, is Plutarch's most well-known book. Rather than being a history, it is more of an insight into human nature. There are twenty-three pairs (one Greek life and one Roman life in each pair) and four unpaired single lives among the surviving Lives.
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