A collection of biographies of famous pairs of Greeks and Romans written by Plutarch; used by Shakespeare in writing some of his plays WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of 48 biographies of famous men, arranged in pairs to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings, probably written at the beginning of the second century AD. The surviving Parallel Lives Wikipedia

Series of biographies by Plutarch. Wikipedia Disambiguation

Biographies of famous Greeks and Romans by Plutarch Wikidata