Parallel Lives

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ancient Greek literature biographical work

Parallel Lives is a series of biographies by the ancient Greek writer Plutarch that pairs the lives of famous Greeks and Romans to draw moral and character comparisons.

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Label Occurrences
Parallel Lives canonical 38
Parallel Lives biography 1

Statements (71)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Greek literature ⓘ
biographical work ⓘ
author Plutarch ⓘ
countryOfOrigin Greek Antiquity ⓘ
surface form: Ancient Greece
genre biography ⓘ
moral literature ⓘ
hasPart Life of Aemilius Paulus ⓘ
Life of Agesilaus ⓘ
Life of Agis and Cleomenes ⓘ
Life of Alcibiades ⓘ
Life of Alexander ⓘ
surface form: Life of Alexander the Great

Life of Antony ⓘ
Life of Aratus ⓘ
Life of Aristides ⓘ
Artaxerxes I of Persia ⓘ
surface form: Life of Artaxerxes

Life of Brutus ⓘ
Life of Camillus ⓘ
Life of Cato the Elder ⓘ
Life of Cato the Younger ⓘ
Life of Cicero ⓘ
Life of Cimon ⓘ
Life of Coriolanus ⓘ
Life of Crassus ⓘ
Life of Demetrius ⓘ
Life of Demosthenes ⓘ
Life of Dion ⓘ
Life of Eumenes ⓘ
Life of Fabius Maximus ⓘ
Life of Titus Quinctius Flamininus ⓘ
surface form: Life of Flamininus

Life of Galba ⓘ
Life of Julius Caesar ⓘ
Life of Lucullus ⓘ
Life of Lycurgus ⓘ
Life of Lysander ⓘ
Life of Marcellus ⓘ
Life of Marius ⓘ
Life of Nicias ⓘ
Life of Numa Pompilius ⓘ
Life of Otho ⓘ
Life of Pelopidas ⓘ
Life of Pericles ⓘ
Life of Philopoemen ⓘ
Life of Phocion ⓘ
Life of Pompey ⓘ
Life of Publicola ⓘ
Life of Pyrrhus ⓘ
Life of Romulus ⓘ
Life of Sertorius ⓘ
Life of Solon ⓘ
Life of Sulla ⓘ
Life of Themistocles ⓘ
Life of Theseus ⓘ
Life of Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus ⓘ
Life of Timoleon ⓘ
hasTheme leadership ⓘ
moral education ⓘ
statesmanship ⓘ
vice ⓘ
virtue ⓘ
influenced Renaissance biography ⓘ
Shakespearean drama ⓘ
mainSubject famous Greeks ⓘ
famous Romans ⓘ
notableInfluencedWork Antony and Cleopatra ⓘ
Coriolanus ⓘ
Julius Caesar ⓘ
originalLanguage Ancient Greek ⓘ
philosophicalTradition Platonism ⓘ
purpose moral comparison of character ⓘ
structure paired biographies ⓘ
timeOfComposition 1st–2nd century AD ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Plutarch → notableWork → Parallel Lives ⓘ
Plutarch → wrote → Parallel Lives ⓘ
Life of Nicias → partOf → Parallel Lives ⓘ
Life of Nicias → workInSeries → Parallel Lives ⓘ
Roman Lives → partOf → Parallel Lives ⓘ
Life of Theseus → partOf → Parallel Lives ⓘ
Life of Theseus → workSeries → Parallel Lives ⓘ
Life of Romulus → partOf → Parallel Lives ⓘ
Life of Lycurgus → partOf → Parallel Lives ⓘ
Life of Numa Pompilius → partOf → Parallel Lives ⓘ
Life of Solon → partOf → Parallel Lives ⓘ
Life of Publicola → partOf → Parallel Lives ⓘ
Life of Themistocles → partOf → Parallel Lives ⓘ
Life of Camillus → partOf → Parallel Lives ⓘ
Life of Fabius Maximus → partOf → Parallel Lives ⓘ
Life of Alexander → partOf → Parallel Lives ⓘ
Life of Julius Caesar → partOf → Parallel Lives ⓘ
Life of Dion → partOf → Parallel Lives ⓘ
Life of Brutus → workIn → Parallel Lives ⓘ
Life of Timoleon → partOf → Parallel Lives ⓘ
Life of Aemilius Paulus → genre → Parallel Lives ⓘ
Life of Aemilius Paulus → partOf → Parallel Lives ⓘ
Life of Crassus → partOf → Parallel Lives ⓘ
Life of Pyrrhus → partOf → Parallel Lives ⓘ
Life of Marius → partOf → Parallel Lives ⓘ
Life of Lucullus → partOf → Parallel Lives ⓘ
Life of Agesilaus → partOf → Parallel Lives ⓘ
Life of Pompey → partOf → Parallel Lives ⓘ
Life of Pelopidas → partOf → Parallel Lives ⓘ
Life of Pelopidas → collection → Parallel Lives ⓘ
Life of Aratus → partOf → Parallel Lives ⓘ
Life of Galba → partOf → Parallel Lives ⓘ
Life of Alcibiades → partOf → Parallel Lives ⓘ
Life of Alcibiades → workIn → Parallel Lives ⓘ
Life of Cimon → partOf → Parallel Lives ⓘ
Life of Titus Quinctius Flamininus → literaryForm → Parallel Lives ⓘ
this entity surface form: Parallel Lives biography
Life of Titus Quinctius Flamininus → partOf → Parallel Lives ⓘ
Life of Marcellus → partOf → Parallel Lives ⓘ
Life of Otho → partOf → Parallel Lives ⓘ