Plutarch roman lives5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The editor states that those invited were “told only that parallelism is the theme” (xi). The work is a collection of papers originally presented at a conference in Cork in 2005. Humble’s collection demonstrates that the contemporary scholar cannot adequately examine the purpose of even a single Life of Plutarch’s biographies without engaging with the vital role of parallelism. Such collections fail to show the utility of reading Plutarch’s Lives as they were originally published-as paired biographies. English collections do not publish the Lives as parallels, but instead contain of Greco-Roman Lives that tend to be organized by a historical era. Most modern readers of translations of Plutarch’s Lives are likely to be unaware of the importance of parallelism to his biographical purpose. ![]()
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