On Sparta

By Plutarch

Plutarch’s vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the rise and fall of their remarkable Greek city-state between the sixth and thir...

The Rise of Rome

By Plutarch

The latest installment in our fully revised edition of Plutarch’s Lives of the great men of the ancient world, this volume focusing on early RomeThe biographies collected in this volume bring tog...

Alexander

By Plutarch, Quintus Curtius Rufus

Great Ideas in Consolation To His Wife

By Plutarch

Alexander the Great

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Inspired in his leadership, fearless in battle, and boundless in his ambition, Alexander the Great was worshiped as a god during his lifetime, and his legend has only grown since. Inheriting his fa...

Greek Lives

By Plutarch

"Plutarch's biographies of eminent Greeks and Romans are renowned not just for their historical importance but also for their insights into the personalities they describe. In prose that is rich, e...

Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Lives

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Selected Essays and Dialogues

By Plutarch, Donald Russell

Plutarch's Advice to the Bride & Groom

By Plutarch

Essays on Plutarch's Lives

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This volume brings together the work of a wide range of international scholars on the most important themes in Plutarch's Greek and Roman Lives. It includes contributions on Plutarch's life and cu...