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Parallel Lives - Biographies
Plutarch structured his Lives by alternating lives of famous Greeks ("Grecians") with those of famous Romans. After such a set of two (sometimes four) lives he generally writes out a comparison of the preceding biographies.
In the table below, besides links to the wikipedia articles on the historic figures, there are also links to several on-line versions of Plutarch's Lives[1]; see also "Other links" section below.
D
Dryden is famous for having lent his name as editor-in-chief to the first complete English translation of Plutarch's Lives. This 17th century translation is available at The MIT Internet Classics Archive. In the table below, the external links marked D deep link to the individual biographies (and comparisons) as provided by that website.
G
Project Gutenberg contains several versions of 19th century translations of these Lives, see: http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/authrec?fk_authors=342 and http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14114
The full text version (TXT) of such a translation is available at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/674
As far as HTML editions of these translations are available at the Gutenberg website, the external links marked G in the table below deep link to the relevant section of these Gutenberg webpages.
L
The LacusCurtius website has the Loeb translation (published 1914‑1926) of several works of Plutarch, amongst which the Lives of all Romans (and a few Greeks), see http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/home.html
As far as available these translations are linked with L in the table below.
P
Also the Perseus Project has several of the Lives, see: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cache/perscoll_Greco-Roman.html
The Lives available on the Perseus website are in Greek and English according to the Bernadotte Perrin edition; and/or in English according to an abbreviated version of the Thomas North translations[2]. This last edition concentrates on those of the Lives Shakespeare based his plays upon: Thomas North's translation of most of the Lives, based on a French version published in the 16th century, preceded Dryden's translation mentioned above.
These Perseus editions are marked by P.
- Theseus D G P
- Lycurgus D G
- Solon D G P
- Themistocles D G P
- Pericles D G P
- Alcibiades D G P
- Timoleon D G
- Pelopidas D G
- Aristides D G P
- Philopoemen D G L
- Pyrrhus D G L
- Lysander D G P
- Cimon D G P
- Nicias D G P
- Eumenes D G
- Agesilaus D G
- Alexander the Great D G L P
- Phocion D G
- Agis D and Cleomenes D
- Demosthenes D
- Demetrius D
- Dion D
- Aratus D and Artaxerxes D
- Romulus D G L
- Numa Pompilius D G L
- Poplicola DG L
- Camillus D G L
- Fabius Maximus D G L
- Coriolanus D G L P
- Aemilius Paulus D G L
- Marcellus D G L
- Cato D G L
- Flamininus D G L
- Gaius Marius D G L
- Sulla D G L
- Lucullus D G L
- Crassus D G L
- Sertorius D G L
- Pompey D G L
- Julius Caesar D G L P1 P2[3]
- Cato the Younger D G L
- Tiberius Gracchus D L
and Gaius Gracchus D L
- Cicero D L
- Mark Antony D L P
- Brutus D L P
- Galba D L and Otho D L
- D G
- D G
- D G
- (N/A)
- D G
- D G
- D G
- D G
- G
- D G L
- (N/A)
- D G
- D G
- D G
- D G
- D G
- (N/A)
- (N/A)
- D
- D
- D
- D
- (N/A)
Notes
- ^ The last line of the table contains the four "unpaired" lives, as mentioned above.
- ^ The Perseus project also contains a biography of Caesar Augustus appearing in the North translation, but not coming from Plutarch's Parallel Lives: P
- ^ At the time of composing this table there appears some confusion in the internal linking of the Perseus webpages, responsible for this split in two references.
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