Plutarchs Lives written at the beginning of the second century A.D. is abrilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest ofbiographers and m... » 

Plutarchs Lives written at the beginning of the second century A.D. is abrilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest ofbiographers and moralists of all time. Volume I contains profiles andcomparisons of Romulus and Theseus Numa and Lycurgus Fabius and Pericles andmany more formidable personalities of ancient Greece and Rome.The present translation originally published in 1683 in conjunction with alife of Plutarch by John Dryden was revised in 1864 by the poet and scholarArthur Hugh Clough. «