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This book was the principal source for Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, and Antony and Cleopatra. It had been also 1 of 2 catalogs Mary Shelley chose for the blind hermit to make use of for Frankenstein's monster's education, with the other being the Bible. Plutarch's Lives remains one of the world's most profoundly important literary works. Written at the beginning of the second century, it forms a brilliant communal history of the historical world. His "parallel lives" were actually presented in a series of books that provided an account of 1 Greek and one Roman life, accompanied by a comparison of the two. Included are Romulus and Theseus, Pompey and Agesilaus, Dion and Brutus, Alcibiades and Coriolanus, Demosthenes and Cicero, and Demetrius and Antony. Plutarch was a moralist of the best order. "It had been for the sake of others i first commenced writing biographies," he said, "but I find myself proceeding and attaching myself to it for my very own; the virtues of these great men offering me as a sort of looking glass, in which I may observe how to adapt and adorn my very own life." The first of the two volumes in this translation by John Dryden presents Theseus and Romulus, Pericles and Fabius, Alcibiades and Coriolanus, Aristides and Marcus Cato, and Lysander and Sylla, amongst others.
