In this compilation from Plutarch's Greek Lives, James Romm gathers the material of greatest historical significance from fifteen biographies, ranging from Theseus in earliest times to Phocion in the late fourth century BCE. In many instances they are the only account available to those exploring ancient history through primary sources.
Although Plutarch did not intend his Lives as a historical record, they sometimes furnish the best account we have of events in classical Greece.
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