These were arranged in pairs, one Greek and one Roman, in order to compare their lives and achievements and characters.
Plutarch is most famous for the Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of eminent Greek and Roman leaders.
He was a prolific writer in all genres: an ancient catalogue attributes no fewer than 227 works to Plutarch, of which 78 have come down to us. Plutarch was a Greco-Roman philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi.
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