{"product_id":"plutarchs-parallel-lives-vol-iv-paperback","title":"Plutarch's Parallel Lives, Vol. IV (Paperback)","description":"\u003ch2\u003ePlutarch's Parallel Lives: Vol. IV\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRestored and Modernized by Trumpet Publishing House\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlutarch\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“It is not histories I am writing, but lives.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe reform that gets a man killed. The virtue that gets him remembered anyway.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVolume IV of Plutarch's \u003cem\u003eParallel Lives\u003c\/em\u003e pairs two Spartan kings who tried to restore a fading republic, Agis and Cleomenes, with two Roman brothers who tried the same thing a century later and met the same end, Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus. It closes with the life of Cicero, the man who watched Rome's republic die and spoke against its killers until the day they killed him too.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlutarch did not write these as history. He wrote them as character studies, set side by side on purpose, so a reader could see what the same virtue costs a Greek and a Roman, a king and a tribune, centuries apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy this restoration\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition preserves the Aubrey Stewart and George Long translation in full, first published in 1894, modernized in typography and formatting only. Nothing has been abridged, softened, or brought into line with contemporary sensibility. The comparisons Plutarch wrote between each pair of lives are restored to their original place, not relegated to an appendix.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBooks That Benefit\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLeadership under pressure:\u003c\/strong\u003e What reform costs a leader who tries to give power back rather than take more of it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLegacy versus survival:\u003c\/strong\u003e Four men who chose to be remembered over being safe, and what that choice actually looked like from the inside.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eClassical judgment:\u003c\/strong\u003e Plutarch's own method, character revealed through action, not asserted through summary.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWho is it for?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReaders of classical history, leadership, and political philosophy, and anyone building a serious home library of primary sources rather than commentary about them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6 style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook details:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003ch6 style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003ePlutarch's Parallel Lives: Vol. IV\u003c\/em\u003e I \u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Plutarch I \u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Trumpet Publishing House I \u003cstrong\u003eOriginal work:\u003c\/strong\u003e Early second century AD I \u003cstrong\u003eHistoric translation:\u003c\/strong\u003e Aubrey Stewart and George Long I \u003cstrong\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Restored and Modernized by Trumpet Publishing House I \u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback I \u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e Perfect Bound I \u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781764873468 I \u003cstrong\u003ePrice:\u003c\/strong\u003e US$22.99 I \u003cstrong\u003eProduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e Made to order\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003ch6 style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEvery order plants a tree through our production partnership.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h6\u003e","brand":"Trumpet Publishing House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54429552247100,"sku":"9781764873468","price":33.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/3650\/1820\/files\/ChatGPTImageAug17_2026_04_41_40PM.png?v=1789991825","url":"https:\/\/trumpetpublishinghouse.com\/products\/plutarchs-parallel-lives-vol-iv-paperback","provider":"Trumpet Publishing House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}