Lives from Plutarch

Plutarch wrote them as pairs. So he's always, always pairing a Greek and a Roman. And then at the end, comparing them. And those comparisons that he opts for are really interesting. But one of the most obvious ones is he's got Alexander the Great for his Greek half and Julius Caesar for his second half.

I'm going to go and read Plutarch's life with Caesar.

quote on his return to Rome. The whole transaction was greatly blamed as dishonorable and disgraceful end quote

The wild beasts of Italy had their dens and holes in hiding places. While the men who fought and died in defensive Italy enjoyed indeed the air and the light, but nothing else. Houseless and without a spot of ground to rest upon, they wander about with their wives and children while their commanders with a lie in their mouths exhort the soldiers in battle to defend their tombs and temples against the enemy. For out of so many Romans, not one has a family altar or ancestral tomb. But they fight to maintain the luxury and wealth of others and they die with the title of Lords of the Earth without possessing a single patch of earth to call their own.

the kinsfolk and friends of the soldiers who were a large part of the people crowded about Tiberius charging the general with a disgraceful part of what had happened and declaring that Tiberius had been the savior of so many citizens end quote

well then, as the Council betrays the state, to those who wish to maintain the laws, follow me.

Oh, like I just read this book, three lives from Mississippi about, um, the, the murder of those three civil rights workers. Like there's murder is not a federal crime.

I want to nerd out about this because I would love to read that book. So tell me what that was and let's talk about Plutarch.