Plutarch's Parallel Lives is a collection of concise biographies of famous Greek and Roman men, most often comparing two of them. There is a school of thought that there should be a comparison for all of the pairings and that some of them have been lost. Because this work is also referenced on the Emperors pages, I began the table below but I will likely not finish it.

The concept of the work seems to be that the Romans and the Greeks have much in common as can be seen in the lives of these famous people.

Greek Lives		Roman Lives		Comparisons
Theseus	Founder of Athens	Romulus	Founder of Rome
Lycurgus	Lawgiver of Sparta	Numa Pompilius	2nd king of Rome
Solon	Athenian statesman, lawmaker and poet.	Publicola (Publius Valerius)	one of four Roman aristocrats who led the overthrow of the monarchy
Themistocles	Athenian politician and general, one of a new breed of non-aristocratic politicians.	Marcus Furius Camillus	soldier and statesman of patrician descent. According to Livy and Plutarch, Camillus triumphed four times, was five times dictator, and was honoured with the title of Second Founder of Rome.	comparison not extant
Pericles	was a prominent and influential Greek statesman, orator and general of Athens during the Golden Age	Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus	Called "the delayer" in reference to ihis strategy against Hannibal's forces during the Second Punic War.
Alcibiades	prominent Athenian statesman, orator, and general.	Coriolanus	Gaius Marcius (Caius Martius) Coriolanus in considered legendary by some, he is said to have lived in the 5th century BC.  In later ancient times, it was generally accepted that was a real historical individual. Plutarch is one of the sources about him.
Timoleon		Aemilius Paulus
Pelopidas		Marcellus
Aristides		Cato the Elder
Philopoemen		Flamininus
Pyrrhus		Marius		comparison not extant
Lysander		Sulla
Cimon		Lucullus
Nicias		Crassus
Eumenes		Sertorius
Agesilaus		Pompey
Alexander		Caesar		comparison not extant
Phocion		Cato the Younger		comparison not extant
Agis & Cleomenes		Tiberius & Caius Gracchus
Demosthenes		Cicero	Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman politician and lawyer. He is considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists
Demetrius		Antony
Dion		Brutus

 

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutarch 3/5/18

http://www.bible-researcher.com/plutarch1.html 3/5/18

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moralia 3/5/18

https://www.brainyquote.com/lists/authors/top_10_plutarch_quotes 3/5/18

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/plutarch/lives/home.html 3/5/18

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