Parallel Lives¶
Plutarch. (1926). Parallel Lives. Harvard University Press.
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- Great Man Theory
- The theory is also embedded in foundational biographical practices that long predate explicit historiography: Plutarch's Parallel Lives, composed in the second century CE, established a precedent of understanding historical periods through the parallel biographies of great individuals, a framework that shaped Western historical writing for nearly two millennia.
This source46 paired Greek/Roman biographies; two-millennia precedent for understanding historical periods through paired biographies of great individuals.
- The theory is also embedded in foundational biographical practices that long predate explicit historiography: Plutarch's Parallel Lives, composed in the second century CE, established a precedent of understanding historical periods through the parallel biographies of great individuals, a framework that shaped Western historical writing for nearly two millennia.
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