Plutarch’s Lives

“Lives” is a series of biographies of famous Greeks and Romans by the ancient Greek historian Plutarch who lived during the first and second century AD. “Lives” consists of twenty-three paired biographies one Greek and one Roman and four unpaired which explore the influence of character on the lives and destinies of the subjects. Rather than providing strictly historical accounts Plutarch was most concerned with capturing this issue of character. “Plutarch’s Lives” contains biographies of the following persons: Theseus Romulus Lycurgus Numa Pompilius Solon Poplicola Themistocles Camillus Pericles Fabius Alcibiades Coriolanus Timoleon Æmilius Paulus Pelopidas Marcellus Aristides Marcus Cato Philopœmen Flamininus Pyrrhus Caius Marius Lysander Sylla Cimon Lucullus Nicias Crassus Sertorius Eumenes Agesilaus Pompey Alexander Cæsar Phocion Cato the younger Agis Cleomenes Tiberius gracchus Caius gracchus Demosthenes Cicero Demetrius Antony Dion Marcus brutus Aratus Artaxerxes Galba and Otho.