Parallel Lives (Clough translation)
- Language:
- English
- Translation:
- John Dryden revisada per Arthur Hugh Clough
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Some scanning errors (automatic measure over the whole text, not checked by hand) · 16 illegible passages, excluded from answers
- Extent:
- ~960,000 words · 4,566 passages
Cite this work
- APAPlutarch. (n.d.). Parallel Lives (Clough translation) (John Dryden revisada per Arthur Hugh Clough, Trans.). Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/plutarch/parallel-lives-clough-translation
- MLAPlutarch. Parallel Lives (Clough translation). Translated by John Dryden revisada per Arthur Hugh Clough. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/plutarch/parallel-lives-clough-translation.
- ChicagoPlutarch. Parallel Lives (Clough translation). Translated by John Dryden revisada per Arthur Hugh Clough. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/plutarch/parallel-lives-clough-translation.
Reference to the edition that SigPhi reproduces: SigPhi is its digital reproduction, not its publisher. The edition's year is not in the metadata (hence "n.d."), and the translator appears only when recorded.
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.
But Lysander was not wanting with an evasion, alleging that if the Spartans were really apprehensive of the oracle, they must have a care of Leotychides; for it was not the limping foot of a king that the gods cared about, but the purity of the Herculean family, into whose sights if a spurious issue were admitted, it would make the kingdom to halt indeed. Agesilaus likewise alleged, that the bastardy of Leotychides was witnessed to by Neptune, who threw Agis out of bed by a violent earthquake, after which time he ceased to visit his wife, yet Leotychides was born above ten months after this.
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