{"product_id":"plutarchs-parallel-lives-the-comparisons","title":"Plutarch's Parallel Lives - The Comparisons","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe collected ‘Comparisons’ from Plutarch’s Parallel Lives :\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn his ‘Comparisons’, Plutarch contrasted the greatest men of Ancient Greece with the greatest men of Ancient Rome, pitting figures like Alcibiades , Pericles and Alexander the Great against homologous ones, the likes of Romulus , Cato and Caesar .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePlutarch’s Lives has served as a source of inspiration to various thinkers and statesmen over the centuries: men like Montaigne , Ben Franklin , Thomas Jefferson , Ralph Waldo Emerson and, perhaps most notably, William Shakespeare , who used Plutarch as “the quarry from which [he] built his Roman plays.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNapoleon too greatly admired Plutarch’s Lives , reading it first as a child, and later carrying copies in his personal library while on campaign in his eponymous wars.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book contains the collected ‘Comparisons’ of Plutarch’s Parallel Lives , part of the Loeb Classical Library edition, translated by Bernadotte Perrin (1847-1920), acclaimed American classicist and the Lampson Professor of Greek Literature and History at Yale University. Perrin was also authored three books on Plutarch’s Lives , as well as several books on Greek poetry, history and drama.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT-BOOK","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":54003717538160,"sku":"979-8281339230","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/8543\/8576\/files\/ebook_3924_febbf1ef38.jpg?v=1783563009","url":"https:\/\/antbook.store\/products\/plutarchs-parallel-lives-the-comparisons","provider":"ANTBOOK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}