Plutarch's Lives - Volume I

This comprehensive anthology of Roman biographer Plutarch boasts an excellent and highly readable translation.

In this volume, we hear Plutarch's accounts of some of the most famous figures from Greek and Roman antiquity. Nominally arranged according to the perceived moral successes and failings of the individuals concerned, the Lives are a stunning insight into how the figures of antiquity were perceived relatively soon after passing into history themselves.

Written in the 2nd ce…