Plutarch

Offers biographies of Greek and Roman leaders and compares their personal qualities and accomplishments.

Plutarch's Lives

Rex Warner

Robin Seager

Rome s famed historian illuminates the twilight of the old Roman Republic from 157 to 43 BC in succinct accounts of the greatest politicians and statesmen of the classical period.

Fall of the Roman Republic

Angela Zeiler

Cicero (106 - 43 BC)
Plutarch has an interesting point of view, because he wrote the biography only 150 years after Ciceros death and could use references that were lost over the centuries. But sometimes I'm not so sure how much he exaggerates. 

Seth Kalback

Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the character and personality of his subjects and how they led ultimately to tragedy or victory. Richly anecdotal and full of detail, Volume I contains profiles and comparisons of Romulus and Theseus, Numa and Lycurgus, Fabius and Pericles, and many more powerful figures of ancient Greece and Rome. The present translation, originally published in 1683 in conjunction with a life of Plutarch by John Dryden, was revised in 1864 by the poet and scholar Arthur Hugh Clough, whose notes and preface are also included in this edition.

Joshua Line

Reidar Hagtvedt

Tania Santos Ferro

Julia A.

Robin Waterfield

Philip A. Stadter

The companion volume to Plutarch's Greek Lives published in Oxford World's Classics in 1998, Roman Lives is a newly translated selection from Plutarch's rich, elegant and learned Lives, valued throughout the ages for their historical value and their charm. The lives included are those of Marcus Cato, Aemilius Paullus, The Gracchi, Marius, Sulla, Pompey, Julius Caesar and Anthony. Closely annotated with bibliographies, maps and an index, this is the ideal edition for all students of classical history.

Plutarch's Lives

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