Vies parallèles
- Langue:
- anglais
- État:
- Œuvre complète
- Paternité:
- Écrite par l'auteur
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- Aucun bruit de numérisation détecté (mesure automatique sur tout le texte, non vérifiée à la main)
- Étendue:
- ~750 000 mots · 3 583 passages
Citer cette œuvre
- APAPlutarque. (n.d.). Plutarch Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans [Vies parallèles]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/plutarch/plutarch-lives-of-the-noble-grecians-and-romans
- MLAPlutarque. Plutarch Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans [Vies parallèles]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/plutarch/plutarch-lives-of-the-noble-grecians-and-romans.
- ChicagoPlutarque. Plutarch Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans [Vies parallèles]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/plutarch/plutarch-lives-of-the-noble-grecians-and-romans.
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De quoi il s'agit
Vingt-trois paires de vies, une grecque et une romaine, comparées entre elles : Alexandre et César, Démosthène et Cicéron.
Contexte et histoire
Plutarque les a écrites au début du IIe siècle et prévient qu'il n'écrit pas de l'histoire mais des vies : un petit geste ou une phrase, dit-il, révèlent le caractère mieux qu'une bataille aux milliers de morts. Par la traduction anglaise de North elles sont parvenues à Shakespeare, qui en a tiré Jules César, Coriolan et Antoine et Cléopâtre presque scène par scène.
Contexte éditorial, non une source citable : contrairement aux passages de l'œuvre, ces données ne peuvent pas être vérifiées dans le corpus.
those that were to be sent, there arose fresh discontents and accusations against Aegeus among the people, who were full of grief and indignation that he, who was the cause of all their miseries, was the only person exempt from the punishment; adopting and settling his kingdom upon a bastard and foreign son, he took no thought, they said, of their destitution and loss, not of bastards, but lawful children. These things sensibly affected Theseus, who, thinking it but just not to disregard, but rather partake of, the sufferings of his fellow citizens, offered himself for one without any lot. All else were struck with admiration for the nobleness and with love for the goodness of the act; and Aegeus, after prayers and entreaties, finding him inflexible and not to be persuaded, proceeded to the choosing of the rest by lot. Hellanicus, however, tells us that the Athenians did not send the young men and virgins by lot, but that Minos himself used to come and make his own choice, and pitched upon Theseus before all others; according to the conditions agreed upon between them, namely, that the Athenians should furnish them with a ship, and that the young men that were to sail with him should carry no weapon of war; but that if the Minotaur was destroyed, the tribute should cease. On the two former occasions of the payment of the tribute, entertaining no hopes of safety or return, they sent out the ship with a black sail, as to unavoidable destruction; but now, Theseus encouraging his father and speaking greatly of himself, as confident that he should kill the Minotaur, he gave the pilot another sail, which was white, commanding him, as he returned, if Theseus were safe, to make use of that; but if not, to sail with the black one, and to hang out that sign of his misfortune.…