Plutarch's Lives (Clough)

For other English-language translations of this work, see Parallel Lives.

Plutarch's Lives (1859)
by Plutarch, edited by John Dryden and Arthur Hugh Clough, translated by "eminent hands"

Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving Parallel Lives (in Greek: Bioi parallèloi), 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. It is a work of considerable importance, not only as a source of information about the individuals biographized, but also about the times in which they lived.— Excerpted from Parallel Lives on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The "Dryden translation" was first published in 1683 with a life of Plutarch by Dryden and translations by others supposedly under his direction. This edition first published in 1859, edited by A.H. Clough.

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