F THESEUS 1

LIFE OF ROMULUS 30

COMPARISON OF THESEUS AND ROMULUS 62

LIFE OF LYKURGUS 67

LIFE OF NUMA 99

COMPARISON OF NUMA WITH LYKURGUS 124

LIFE OF SOLON 130

LIFE OF POPLICOLA 161

COMPARISON OF SOLON AND POPLICOLA 181

LIFE OF THEMISTOKLES 185

LIFE OF CAMILLUS 214

LIFE OF PERIKLES 252

LIFE OF FABIUS MAXIMUS 288

COMPARISON OF PERIKLES AND FABIUS MAXIMIUS 315

LIFE OF ALKIBIADES 318

LIFE OF CAIUS MARCIUS CORIOLANUS 357

COMPARISON BETWEEN ALKIBIADES AND CORIOLANUS 390

LIFE OF TIMOLEON 395

LIFE OF AEMILIUS 428

COMPARISON OF PAULUS AEMILIUS AND TIMOLEON 461

LIFE OF PLUTARCH.

Plutarch was born probably between A.D. 45 and A.D. 50, at the little
town of Chaeronea in Boeotia. His family appears to have been long
established in this place, the scene of the final destruction of the
liberties of Greece, when Philip defeated the Athenians and Boeotian
forces there in 338 B.C. It was here also that Sulla defeated
Mithridates, and in the great civil wars of Rome we again hear, this
time from Plutarch himself, of the sufferings of the citizens of
Chaeronea. Nikarchus, Plutarch's great-grandfather, was, with all the
other citizens, without any exception, ordered by a lieutenant of Marcus
Antonius to transport a quantity of corn from Chaeronea to the coast
opposite the island of Antikyra. They were compelled to carry the corn
on their shoulders, like slaves, and were threatened with the lash if
they were remiss. After they had performed one journey, and were
preparing their burdens for a second, the welcome news arrived that
Marcus Antonius had lost the battle of Actium, whereupon both the
officers and soldiers of his party stationed in Chaeronea at once fled
for their own safety, and the provisions thus collected were divided
among the inhabitants of the city.

When Plutarch was born, however, no such warlike scenes as these were to
be expected. Nothing more than the traditions of war remained on