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.
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