Book: Paperback | 5.07 x 7.79in | 448 pages | ISBN 9780140442861 | 30 Sep 1973 | Penguin Classic | 18 - AND UP
The nine Lives in this selection trace a crucial phase in ancient history.
Plutarch's Lives of the great Greek statesmen and men of action were designed to pair with the now better-known Roman portraits and contain many of his finest descriptions of war, revolution and heroic achievement.
They include studies of Demosthenes and Phocion, the leading Athenian orators; of Agesilaus, the Spartan King, and Pelopidas, the Theban military hero; of Dion and Timoleon, the 'liberators' of Sicily; and, above all, of three generals – Demetrius 'the Besieger', Pyrrhus and Alexander the Great.
Introduction
Translator's Foreword
Chronological Table
1. AGESILAUS
2. PELOPIDAS
3. DION
4. TIMOLEON
5. DEMOSTHENES
6. PHOCION
7. ALEXANDER
8. DEMETRIUS
9. PYRRHUS
