ID3 TALB Plutarchs Lives, Volume 2TPE1 # Plutarch/John Dryden/Bernard MayesTCOP Blackstone Audio, Inc.TCON Biography & AutobiographyTIT2 % Plutarchs Lives, Volume 2 - Part 01TRCK 1COMM ENG
This book was the principal source for Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, and Antony and Cleopatra. It was also one of two books Mary Shelley chose for the blind hermit to use for Frankenstein's monster's education, with the other being the Bible.
Plutarch's Lives remains one of the world's most profoundly influential literary works. Written at the beginning of the second century AD, it forms a brilliant social history of the ancient world. His "parallel lives" were originally presented in a series of books that gave an account of one Greek and one Roman life, followed by a comparison of the two. Included are Romulus and Theseus, Pompey and Agesilaus, Dion and Brutus, Alcibiades and Coriolanus, Demosthenes and Cicero, and Demetrius and Antony.
Plutarch was a moralist of the highest order. "It was for the sake of others that I first commenced writing biographies," he says, "but I ...TLEN
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