Lives are the work of Greek historian and biographer Plutarch, which is a series of biographies of famous Greeks and Romans, arranged in pairs in order to focus on their common moral values ​​or failures. The survivors Lives contain 23 pairs of biographies, a Greek and a Roman, as well as four individual lives. In most of the following pairs of comparison of the two figures. Plutarch in his work makes clear that he is interested in the ethos and character of famous men and not fighting or other historical events that took place.