parallel lives

1. 1.

   a collection of biographies of famous pairs of Greeks and Romans written by Plutarch; used by Shakespeare in writing some of his plays

   Broaderbiography

Questions about parallel lives

What does parallel lives mean?

parallel lives means "a collection of biographies of famous pairs of Greeks and Romans written by Plutarch; used by Shakespeare in writing some of his plays".

Is parallel lives a common word?

parallel lives is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.