Plutarch

Mark Antony’s personal life was almost as storied as his immensely successful polit...

Plutarch begins this biography by stating, “Concerning Lycurgus the lawgiver, in ge...

Alcibiades was a powerful man who made powerful enemies. Within a single war, his loyalti...

A few days before Pericles’ birth, his mother dreamed she gave birth to a lion. Sym...

The Greeks glorified Theseus as the historical founder of Athens. Plutarch’s record...

The story of Romulus is perhaps the most noteworthy entry in Plutarch’s Parallel Li...

The Roman statesman Sulla had the nickname “Felix,” meaning “lucky.&rdq...

In “The Life of Cicero,” Plutarch details the priceless contributions Cicero ...

Plutarch wrote all the biographies in Parallel Lives with a certain flair for valuing cha...

Born into a royal household, Pyrrhus was destined for greatness. He fought in many battle...

Athenian politician Solon made a name for himself as a reformer and poet. Unfortunately, ...

In this biography, Plutarch recounts the radical events that took place in Roman history ...

In this entry of Parallel Lives, Plutarch tells the true story of Lysander, the great Spa...

In this biography, Plutarch states that Tiberius Gracchus was known more for his virtue t...

Caius Gracchus was barely a man when his older brother Tiberius was assassinated for his ...

Julius Caesar peaked as one of the most powerful generals in Roman history. In “The...

Gaius Marius was pivotal to many of the ways in which we know Rome today. His impact on R...

Not many of the people featured in Plutarch’s Parallel Lives series are honored wit...

The Life of Cimon is just one of many notable biographies in Plutarch’s informative...

Publius Valerius Publicola, the subject of Plutarch’s, The Life of Publicola, is on...

In contrast to some of the other, bloodier names listed in Plutarch’s Parallel Live...

Phocion is one of the many Grecian Politician’s lives detailed in Plutarch’s ...

Plutarch set out to understand the lives of the political greats of his time when he wrot...

Plutarch picks some of the most interesting Greek politicians and notable figures to writ...

After Marathon, the Athenian government needed a new type of leader. That leader was poli...

The Life of Fabius Maximus is just one of the notable Roman lives detailed in Plutarch&rs...

The Life of Philopoemen is one of the many lives described in Plutarch’s famous Par...

The Life of Aemilius is one in a series of many biographies by Plutarch of notable Greek ...

Smart, resourceful, and cruel – three words which might describe Titus Quinctius Fl...

Like many of the lives of famous Grecian heroes, Marcellus’ life was documented in ...

Pelopidas started out a hero to the people, being born under a noble family and making a ...

Conquering and blood money – without it, and without the help of Lucius Licinius Lu...

Though Sparta and Greece were once bitter rivals, this did not stop Plutarch from writing...

One of the many documented lives in Plutarch’s Parallel Lives series, The Life of C...

To understand the relationship between Athens and Sparta, Plutarch set out to examine the...

The Life of Timoleon, as told by Plutarch in Parallel lives, is a twisted and intriguing ...

The Life of Demetrius is only one of the many biographies documented in Plutarch’s ...

Cato the Younger was one of the many biographies documented by Plutarch in his series cal...

When it came to Athens and their leaders, few were as influential as the politician and S...

We all know the founder of Rome, but do we know much about the widely-proclaimed second f...

The Life of Aratus is one of the many biographies detailed in Plutarch’s integral w...

One of the more hotly contested lives documented in Plutarch’s Parallel Lives, the ...

Numa Pompilius was chosen by the senate to become Rome’s second king. Plutarch reco...

Cato the Elder rose from his Plebeian ancestry to become a great Roman senator, orator, a...

The Roman general Marcus Licinius Crassus formed the First Triumvirate with Caesar and Po...

The Romans hated Pompey’s greedy father, Strabo, with a vengeance. Yet when Pompey ...

This epic chronicle by Plutarch (A.D. 46-120) continues with the lives of great Grecians ...

Plutarchs's (46-120 A.D.) epic chronicle of the lives of great Grecians and Romans. Begin...