The book is a comparison of life.......... [ ) Comparative life stories .. [ Books Historical Author: Plutarch Format: pdf Size: 10 Language: Russian0 (Votes: 0) Rating:Most valuable in Plutarch's creative heritage from Cheroneia (approx. 45 ok. 127) are biographies of prominent statesmen and public figures of Greece and Rome. Prominent historians of Greece and Rome, compiling a biography of a historical figure, sought to chronologically, consistently describe his life. Plutarch, on the other hand, sought to write a detailed story "about events, to avoid the heap of incoherent stories, to state what is necessary for understanding the way of thinking and character of a person" .. "Comparative biographies" are biographies of great figures of the Greco-Roman world, combined in pairs. After each of them, a small “comparison” is given a kind of conclusion .. To date, 46 pair biographies and four biographies have survived, to which no pairs have been found. Each pair included a biography of a Greek and a Roman, in the fate and character of which the historian saw a certain similarity. He was interested in the psychology of his heroes, proceeding from the fact that man has a desire for good and this quality should be strengthened in every possible way by studying the noble deeds of famous people. Plutarch sometimes idealizes his characters, notes their best features, believing that mistakes and shortcomings do not need to be covered with "all the hunting and detail". Many of the events of the ancient history of Greece and Rome we know, first of all, in the presentation of Plutarch. The historical framework in which his characters lived and acted is very wide, from mythological times to the last century BC. e.