Plutarch’s monumental work “Parallel Lives” could equally have been called: A guide of comparative leadership. “Parallel Lives” is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in pairs to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. Written in the early 2nd century BC by the Greek Roman biographer Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, Plutarch to posterity, this work consists of twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pairing a Greek with a Roman, and four single biographies. Think wine and cheese for history’s exemplary. The objective was to offer examples of good and bad character, drawn from both the Greek and Roman worlds, to educate and inspire moral improvement in readers by putting them in contact with models of leadership drawn from distant and recent history (and occasionally legendary). Plutarch knew how to tell a compelling story.
Plutarch and the leadership cone of history
Plutarch and the leadership cone of history
Plutarch and the leadership cone of history
Plutarch’s monumental work “Parallel Lives” could equally have been called: A guide of comparative leadership. “Parallel Lives” is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in pairs to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. Written in the early 2nd century BC by the Greek Roman biographer Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, Plutarch to posterity, this work consists of twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pairing a Greek with a Roman, and four single biographies. Think wine and cheese for history’s exemplary. The objective was to offer examples of good and bad character, drawn from both the Greek and Roman worlds, to educate and inspire moral improvement in readers by putting them in contact with models of leadership drawn from distant and recent history (and occasionally legendary). Plutarch knew how to tell a compelling story.