Plutarch's Parallel Lives, Vol. III (Paperback)

Restored Classic / Alexander the Great / Julius Caesar / Power & Strategy

Alexander conquered an empire. Caesar crossed the Rubicon. Plutarch wanted to know what kind of men could do either.

If one volume of Parallel Lives contains the names that still dominate the imagination two thousand years later, it is this one.

Volume III brings Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar into the same book.

But they do not stand alone. Plutarch also gives readers Nicias and Crassus, Sertorius and Eumenes, Agesilaus and Pompey, and Phocion and Cato the Younger, creating a remarkable sequence of commanders, politicians, survivors, rivals, and men who discovered that extraordinary ability offers no protection from catastrophic judgment.

Written in the early second century AD, Plutarch's great innovation was to place Greek and Roman lives beside one another and ask readers to examine not merely achievement, but character. Alexander and Caesar therefore become more than military legends. They become case studies in ambition, courage, charisma, restraint, fortune, leadership, and the appetite for greatness.

This Trumpet Publishing House edition forms part of our historic restoration and modernization project, returning one of the most influential works of classical civilization to contemporary readers.

Yet Plutarch keeps bringing the reader back from armies and empires to something smaller and, perhaps, more dangerous: the individual decision.

Before they became legends, they had to make decisions.

Format: Paperback | 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 III includes Nicias, Crassus, Sertorius, Eumenes, Agesilaus, Pompey, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Phocion, and Cato the Younger.

Available in Australia. International readers - hardcover edition available.

Alexander. Caesar. Pompey. Crassus. Some names do not need an introduction. Plutarch gives them an examination.

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