{"product_id":"vies-paralleles-i","title":"Parallel Lives I","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere are exceptional individuals who leave their mark on our time and play a decisive role in world history; only the future can tell whether this action is lasting, harmful, or beneficial. At the very beginning of the 2nd century AD, the Greek writer Plutarch of Chaeronea chose to resurrect some of these illustrious figures in his Parallel Lives, because he believed in the virtue of example.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume brings together a selection of lives of Greek and Roman conquerors: Alexander, the conqueror par excellence, and Caesar, who would be haunted by his example throughout his life; Coriolanus and Alcibiades, two ambitious men who, out of bravado or a spirit of revenge, turned their eminent qualities against their homeland; and finally, two heroes who shared the same taste for pleasure, good food, and drinking bouts, the same influence and the same cowardice: Demetrius and Antony.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor Plutarch knew that men change with circumstances, powerful or miserable, shaped by life, seized by death at the moment they thought they were about to achieve their dream, or simply when nature, exhausted by excesses and the pursuit of an insane hope, reminded them that they were mortal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"© 2026 Le Grimoire Ancien","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57547687035205,"sku":"9782080708205","price":14.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1007\/1333\/3061\/files\/vies-paralleles-i-4003465.jpg?v=1778591475","url":"https:\/\/legrimoireancien.com\/en\/products\/vies-paralleles-i","provider":"© 2026 Le Grimoire Ancien","version":"1.0","type":"link"}