Vidas paralelas

The Parallel Lives are the richest and most perfect expression of Plutarch's personality. In this extensive biographical collection, the scholar, the philosopher, the moralist and the man interested in the past, who seeks in the great virtues of his heroes a practical application of his ethical theories, merge. For this reason, this great work allows readers to penetrate the soul, and not only the facts, of the great architects of Greek and Roman history. Within this set, the lives of Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar constitute one of their most famous couples and also one of the most successful in a capital point: they are undoubtedly the two greatest conquerors of the Greek world and of Rome. With his careful prose, Plutarco knows how to explore and highlight some of the traits common to both, such as excessive ambition, extreme resistance to fatigue and claims to descend from gods.