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The Lives of Illustrious Men (Parallel Lives) form Plutarch's best known work, written in Greek and composed between 100 and 120. It is a series of accounts of the lives of illustrious men from the Greco-Roman world , stories organized in pairs, each pair paralleling a Greek and a Roman.
In France, translators sought for a long time to go beyond the founding translation given by Jacques Amyot in 1559. André Dacier — translator of the first order, guard of the King's library and soon to be permanent secretary of the French Academy — gave his translation in 1721. He delivers a moralized Plutarch, which reigns in libraries throughout the 18th century.
Rubbing, especially on corners and cuts. Head cover missing in flight. 2, missing head coverings in vol. 3 and 4. Important ink stain on the frontispiece and the title page in vol. 1 having created a hole in the title page, ink notes on the endpapers and the title page of vol. 1, portrait of Coriolanus sketched in vol. 1 (p202), angular lack in last pages of vol. 2 without damage to the text, hole in the table of vol. 4. Dog-eared pages. foxing 66211119
