Parallel Lives

Plutarch. (1926). Parallel Lives. Harvard University Press.

Type

Book chapter

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1926

Link

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/plutarch/lives/home.html

Cited from

history_historiography

Cited by

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Primes

• 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.

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