Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch (meeting 3 of 3)

Our next meeting:
Friday, August 26, 2011, 7:00 PM
Kansas City Public Library/Plaza Branch, Small Meeting Room
4801 Main Street Kansas City, MO

Our “big book” for the summer is Plutarch’s Lives by Plutarch. We have already met twice and will be meeting one more time to discuss the book. Please look at the following list to see which of the remaining "lives" we will discuss in August. If you can't read all of the assignment, we have designated which "lives" to give first priority.

The top priority “Lives” for August:
Demosthenes
Cicero
Demetrius
Mark Antony

Other “Lives” for August:
Alexander the Great
Julius Caesar
Phocion
Cato the Younger
Agis
Cleomenes
Tiberius Gracchus
Caius Gracchus
Dion
Marcus Brutus
Aratus
Artaxerxes
Galba
Otho

Plutarch (c. 46 – 120 AD) was a Greek historian, biographer and essayist. Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings, written in the late 1st century.

The book contains twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman, as well as four unpaired single lives. It is a work of considerable importance, not only as a source of information about the individuals biographized, but also about the times in which they lived.