Plutarch's Lives - Volume IV.: Translated from the Greek, with Notes and a Life of Plutarch

The final volume of Plutarch’s Lives completes one of the greatest achievements in biographical literature.

Plutarch brings together further portraits of Greek and Roman figures whose lives illustrate the enduring tensions between power and principle, ambition and restraint. As throughout the work, Plutarch’s concern is not chronology alone, but moral insight. Small actions, private decisions, and personal habits are treated as keys to understanding public greatness or failure, reinforcing ...