Roman Lives

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ancient literature biographical collection

Roman Lives is a collection of Plutarch’s biographical sketches of notable figures from ancient Rome, often paired with Greek counterparts in his Parallel Lives.

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Label	Occurrences
Roman Lives canonical	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient literature ⓘ biographical collection ⓘ
author	Plutarch ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	Greek Antiquity ⓘ surface form: Ancient Greece
focusesOn	notable Romans ⓘ
genre	historical biography ⓘ
hasPart	Life of Aemilius Paulus ⓘ Life of Brutus ⓘ Life of Camillus ⓘ Life of Cato the Younger ⓘ Life of Cicero ⓘ Life of Coriolanus ⓘ Life of Crassus ⓘ Life of Fabius Maximus ⓘ Life of Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus ⓘ surface form: Life of Gaius Gracchus Life of Galba ⓘ Life of Julius Caesar ⓘ Life of Lucullus ⓘ Life of Marcellus ⓘ Life of Marius ⓘ Life of Mark Antony ⓘ Life of Numa Pompilius ⓘ surface form: Life of Numa Life of Otho ⓘ Life of Pompey ⓘ Life of Publicola ⓘ Life of Romulus ⓘ Life of Sertorius ⓘ Life of Sulla ⓘ Life of Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus ⓘ surface form: Life of Tiberius Gracchus
historicalPeriodCovered	Roman Republic ⓘ early Roman Empire ⓘ
influencedWork	Antony and Cleopatra ⓘ surface form: Antony and Cleopatra (play) Coriolanus ⓘ surface form: Coriolanus (play) Julius Caesar (play) ⓘ
language	Ancient Greek ⓘ
literaryForm	biography ⓘ
literaryTradition	Greco-Roman biography ⓘ
originalMedium	manuscript ⓘ
partOf	Parallel Lives ⓘ
primaryTheme	moral character ⓘ political leadership ⓘ
purpose	moral instruction through example ⓘ
structure	paired with Greek counterparts ⓘ
subject	Roman Antiquity ⓘ surface form: ancient Rome
timeOfComposition	late 1st century AD ⓘ
usedAsSourceBy	William Shakespeare ⓘ

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