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Parallel Lives (Clough translation)

Plutarch

Language:
English
Translation:
John Dryden revisada per Arthur Hugh Clough
Status:
Complete work
Authorship:
Written by the author
Extent:
~960,000 words · 4,567 passages
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What it is about

The Parallel Lives, in Clough's translation.

Context and history

Plutarch pairs a Greek with a Roman — Alexander and Caesar, Demosthenes and Cicero — and compares them at the end of each pair. He is not writing history but **character**: he says outright that a small anecdote reveals the man better than a battle. Half of Shakespeare's Roman plays come from here, and much of what the West thinks it knows about antiquity.

Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.

SOMETIME FELLOW AND TUTOR OF ORIEL COLLEGE, OXFORD, AND LATE PROFESSOR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON. VOL. I. BOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY. 1865. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by Little, Brown, and Company, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts. One Hundred copies printed. University Press: Welch, Bigelow, and Company, Cambridge. GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS. VOLUME I. VOLUME II. VOLUME III. VOLUME IV. VOLUME V. ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF THE LIVES. ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF THE COMPARISONS. PLUTARCH'S LIVES. THE TRANSLATION CALLED DRYDEN'S. Corrected from the Greek and Revised BY A. H. CLOUGH, SOMETIME FELLOW AND TUTOR OF ORIEL COLLEGE, OXFORD, AND LATE PROFESSOR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON. VOL. I. BOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY. 1865. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by Little, Brown, and Company, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts. One Hundred copies printed. University Press: Welch, Bigelow, and Company, Cambridge. VOLUME I. ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF THE LIVES. ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF THE COMPARISONS. PLUTARCH'S LIVES. THE TRANSLATION CALLED DRYDEN'S. Corrected from the Greek and Revised BY A. H. CLOUGH, SOMETIME FELLOW AND TUTOR OF ORIEL COLLEGE, OXFORD, AND LATE PROFESSOR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON. VOL. II. BOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY. 1865. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by Little, Brown, and Company, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts. One Hundred copies printed. University Press: Welch, Bigelow, and Company, Cambridge. CONTENTS OF VOLUME II. PLUTARCH'S LIVES. THE TRANSLA

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