Plutarch's Lives, Volume 3 (of 4)
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Clean text
- Extent:
- ~240,000 words · 1,138 passages
Cite this work
- APAPlutarch. (n.d.). Plutarch's Lives, Volume 3 (of 4). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/plutarch/plutarch-s-lives-volume-3-of-4
- MLAPlutarch. "Plutarch's Lives, Volume 3 (of 4)." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/plutarch/plutarch-s-lives-volume-3-of-4.
- ChicagoPlutarch. Plutarch's Lives, Volume 3 (of 4). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/plutarch/plutarch-s-lives-volume-3-of-4.
What it is about
The third volume of a four-volume edition of the Parallel Lives.
Context and history
Worth knowing before starting: the catalogue holds TWO different editions of the Lives, this one in four volumes and another in a single volume. They are not different works, nor do they complement each other; they are the same text differently presented, and the division into volumes is the publisher's, not Plutarch's, who wrote independent pairs of lives. To cite him, the custom is to give the subject's name and the chapter — 'Alexander 1' — which works in any edition.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
As it appears to me that the life of Nikias forms a good parallel to that of Crassus, and that the misfortunes of the former in Sicily may be well compared with those of the latter in Parthia, I must beg of my readers to believe that in writing upon a subject which has been described by Thucydides with inimitable grace, clearness, and pathos, I have no ambition to imitate Timæus, who, when writing his history, hoped to surpass Thucydides himself in eloquence, and to show that Philistius was but an ignorant bungler, and so plunges into an account of the speeches and battles of his heroes, proving himself not merely one "Who toils on foot afar Behind the Lydian car," as Pindar has it, but altogether unfit for the office of historian, and, in the wo
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