Plutarch’s Parallel Lives

This book examines Plutarch’s narrative techniques in the Parallel Lives of drawing his readers into the process of moral evaluation and exposing them to the complexities involved in making moral judgements. It thus allows a point of entry into Plutarch’s praise-and-blame rhetoric in the Lives and elucidates the exact working of his readers’ cooperative activity in reading about and forming the right judgement on the lives of the great men of history.