Vite parallele
- Lingua:
- inglese
- Stato:
- Opera completa
- Autorialità:
- Scritta dall'autore
- Stato del testo:
- Nessun rumore di scansione rilevato (misura automatica su tutto il testo, non verificata a mano)
- Estensione:
- ~750.000 parole · 3583 passi
Cita quest'opera
- APAPlutarco. (n.d.). Plutarch Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans [Vite parallele]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/works/plutarch/plutarch-lives-of-the-noble-grecians-and-romans
- MLAPlutarco. Plutarch Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans [Vite parallele]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/it/works/plutarch/plutarch-lives-of-the-noble-grecians-and-romans.
- ChicagoPlutarco. Plutarch Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans [Vite parallele]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/works/plutarch/plutarch-lives-of-the-noble-grecians-and-romans.
Riferimento dell'edizione che SigPhi riproduce: SigPhi ne è la riproduzione digitale, non l'editore. L'anno dell'edizione non figura nei metadati (da qui «n.d.») e il traduttore compare solo quando è noto.
Di che cosa tratta
Ventitré coppie di vite, una greca e una romana, messe a confronto: Alessandro con Cesare, Demostene con Cicerone.
Contesto e storia
Plutarco le scrisse all'inizio del II secolo e avverte che non fa storia ma vite: un gesto piccolo o una frase, dice, rivelano il carattere meglio di una battaglia con migliaia di morti. Attraverso la traduzione inglese di North giunsero a Shakespeare, che ne trasse il Giulio Cesare, il Coriolano e l'Antonio e Cleopatra quasi scena per scena.
Contesto editoriale, non una fonte citabile: a differenza dei passi dell'opera, questi dati non si possono verificare sul 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.…