by Plutarco · Ediciones Akal · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788446018568
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«Vidas de Arístides y de Catón» is Plutarch's biographical work, published by Ediciones Akal in paperback (158 pages, in Spanish).
Plutarch compares the lives of the Athenian statesman Aristides and the Roman censor Cato the Elder. Through small details of conduct, the author shows how each man's character shaped the political and military events of his time. The volume is part of the Parallel Lives, a widely circulated work that influenced Western culture up to Romanticism.
It is volume 69 of Akal's Clásica collection, edited by Luz Conti Jiménez. First edition, published on June 20, 2003.
For readers interested in classical history and the origins of biography as a literary genre.
Plutarch was a Greek and later Roman Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. He is known primarily for his Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of illustrious Greeks and Romans, and Moralia, a collection of essays and speeches. Upon becoming a Roman citizen, he was possibly named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus.
