Plutarch

Plutarch was a Greek biographer, philosopher and priest who wrote under the Roman Empire. His Parallel Lives compare Greek and Roman statesmen and generals, preserving influential narratives about character, politics and warfare.

In non-fiction, Plutarch is discussed in Plutarch’s Fall of the Roman Republic, Plutarch’s On Sparta, Plutarch’s The Age of Alexander, Plutarch’s The Makers of Rome, and Plutarch’s The Rise and Fall of Athens. In Plutarch’s Fall of the Roman Republic, this Plutarch selection follows six men whose careers shaped the end of the Roman Republic, usually including Marius, Sulla, Crassus, Pompey, Caesar and Cicero.