Plutarch's Parallel Lives, Vol. II (Hardcover)

Restored Classic / Military History / Strategy / Leadership

Power is easy to admire from a distance. Plutarch studied what it did to the person holding it.

For nearly two thousand years, Parallel Lives has invited readers into the ambitions, victories, mistakes, rivalries, and private character of the men who shaped Greece and Rome. Plutarch was interested in more than what his subjects conquered. He wanted to know what kind of person could command, govern, survive defeat, endure success, or destroy himself with ambition.

Volume II belongs to soldiers, statesmen, reformers, and men dangerous enough to change history.

Enter the lives of Pelopidas and Marcellus, Aristides and Cato the Elder, Philopoemen and Titus Flamininus, Pyrrhus, Marius, Lysander and Sulla, and Cimon and Lucullus.

Here are battlefield commanders, political rivals, republicans, reformers, conquerors, and men whose appetite for victory could become as dangerous as the enemies they fought.

This Trumpet Publishing House edition forms part of our historic restoration and modernization project, preserving one of the great works of classical biography while bringing its language and lessons into clearer reach for contemporary readers.

Read it for military history. Read it for political strategy. Read it for leadership. Then notice the question Plutarch keeps asking beneath all three: What happens to character when power arrives?

Weapons changed. Ambition did not.

Format: Hardcover | Author: Plutarch | Original Work: Early second century AD | Historic Four-Volume Translation: Aubrey Stewart and George Long | Edition: Restored and Modernized by Trumpet Publishing House

Volume II includes Pelopidas, Marcellus, Aristides, Cato the Elder, Philopoemen, Titus Flamininus, Pyrrhus, Marius, Lysander, Sulla, Cimon, and Lucullus.

Available internationally. Australian readers - paperback edition available locally.

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A library of commanders and statesmen, and a reminder that winning the battle was never the whole story.

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