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Engraving facing the title page of an 18th-century edition of Plutarch's Lives. The Parallel Lives (Ancient Greek: Βίοι Παράλληλοι, Bíoi Parállēloi; Latin: Vītae Parallēlae) is a series of 48 biographies of famous men written in Greek by the Greco-Roman philosopher, historian, and Apollonian priest Plutarch, probably at the beginning of the second century.
—Plutarch, Life of Solon 16:1 [18] —Plutarch, Life of Solon 18:1 [ 2 ] Solon further instituted a timocracy , ( τιμοκρατία ) and those who did not belong to the nobility received a share in the rights of citizens, [ i ] according to a scale determined by their property and their corresponding services to the Athenian State .
Plutarch's Life of Alexander, written as a parallel to that of Julius Caesar, is one of five extant tertiary sources on the Macedonian conqueror Alexander the Great. It includes anecdotes and descriptions of events that appear in no other source, just as Plutarch's portrait of Numa Pompilius , the putative second king of Rome, holds much that ...
Whereas Suetonius debates whether Caesar had always coveted tyranny, Plutarch does not discuss the question and considers that Caesar's mind was set on achieving sole rule from the beginning of his life. In the 3rd chapter, Plutarch writes that "his attention was devoted to becoming first in power and in armed strength".
Plutarch, Parallel Lives, "Life of {{{1}}}" ([[s:Plutarch's Lives (Clough)/Life_of_{{{1}}}#1:1 |ed.Clough 1859]]; ed. Loeb). This template generates a citation of one of Plutarch's Parallel Lives, with hyperlinks to the Loeb edition (on Bill Thayer's penelope.uchicago.edu) and the Clough/Dryden edition (on Wikisource).
Solon (Ancient Greek: Σόλων; c. 630 – c. 560 BC) [1] was an archaic Athenian statesman, lawmaker, political philosopher, and poet.He is one of the Seven Sages of Greece and credited with laying the foundations for Athenian democracy.
The only reward he would accept was a branch of the sacred olive, and a promise of perpetual friendship between Athens and Knossos (Plutarch, Life of Solon, 12; Aristotle, Ath. Pol . 1). Athenaeus also mentions him, in connection with the self-sacrifice of the erastes and eromenos pair of Aristodemus and Cratinus , who were believed to have ...
According to Plutarch, both Poplicola and his colleague, Lucretius, were severely wounded during the battle. [1] During the siege, Poplicola executed a successful sally, defeating a Clusian raiding party. [11] According to Plutarch, Poplicola negotiated a treaty with Porsena, ending the war.