* Agis IV ( 265 BC – 241 BC ), a Spartan king ; Plutarch included a chapter on him in his Parallel Lives

* Plutarch Parallel Lives ( Aristides, Themistocles, Theseus ), On the Malice of Herodotus

Other noteworthy and famous Greek historians include Plutarch ( 2nd century AD ), who wrote several biographies, the Parallel Lives, in which he wanted to assess the morality of its characters by comparing them in pairs, and Polybius ( 3nd century BC ), who developed Thucydides's method further, becoming one of the most objective historians of classical antiquity.

His earliest work was a biography of the Greek statesman Philopoemen ; this work was later used as a source by Plutarch when composing his Parallel Lives, however the original Polybian text is lost.

** Parallel Lives by Plutarch, particularly:

In his chapter on Romulus from Parallel Lives, Plutarch criticises the continuous belief in such disappearances, referring to the allegedly miraculous disappearance of the historical figures Romulus, Cleomedes of Astypalaea, and Croesus.

* Plutarch writes his Parallel Lives of Famous Men ( in Greek Βίοι Παράλληλοι ) containing fifty biographies, of which 46 are presented as pairs comparing Greek and Roman celebrities — for example Theseus and Romulus, Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, Demosthenes and Cicero.

* Plutarch, The Parallel Lives, The Life of Julius Caesar

* Plutarch, Parallel Lives, Solon

Epaminondas was one of approximately 50 ancient figures given an extensive biography by Plutarch in his Parallel Lives, in which he is paired with the Roman statesman Scipio Africanus ; however, both these " Lives " are now lost.

* Plutarch, Parallel Lives

* Plutarch, Parallel Lives ( Numa Pompilius ), v. 8. 6

* Plutarch, Parallel Lives, Life of Numa Pompilius.

* Plutarch, Parallel Lives ( Romulus, 14 – 20 )

* The Greek historian / biographer Plutarch of Chaeronea wrote the On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander the Great and " Life of Alexander " in his " Parallel Lives " series, paired with " Life of Julius Caesar "

* Plutarch, The Parallel Lives-The Life of Camillus:

Noteworthy in the Roman period were Strabo, a writer on geography ; Plutarch, the father of biography, whose Parallel Lives of famous Greeks and Romans is a chief source of information about great figures of antiquity ; Pausanias, a travel writer ; and Lucian, a satirist.

# Plutarch – Parallel Lives ; Moralia

However, Plutarch, who wrote about Eumenes in his series of Parallel Lives, mentions that it was about lodgings, and a flute-player, so perhaps this was an instance of some deeper antagonism breaking out into a quarrel over a triviality.

* Plutarch, Parallel Lives, Alexander, Eumenes

* Plutarch, Parallel Lives, " Demetrius ", " Pyrrhus ", " Aratus "

* Plutarch, Parallel Lives ; Themistocles, Aristides, Pericles, Cimon

* Plutarch, Parallel Lives

A third edition of his Plutarch was published, in 1603, with more translated Parallel Lives, and a supplement of other translated biographies.

* Plutarch " Lives "

* Plutarch, Lives, Bernadotte Perrin ( translator ), Cambridge, MA.

Most of these have been recorded by Plutarch ( Lives of Romulus, Numa Pompilius and Camillus ), Florus ( Book I, I ), Cicero ( The Republic VI, 22: Scipio's Dream ), Dio ( Dion ) Cassius and Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( L. 2 ).

* Plutarch ( Lives of Romulus, Numa Pompilius, Camillus )

Plutarch, on the other hand, was given to “ tendencies to stereotype, to polarize, and to exaggerate that are inherent in the propaganda surrounding his subjects .” Furthermore, because of the unlikelihood that Shakespeare would have had direct access to Plutarch ’ s Greek Lives and probably read them through a French translation from a Latin translation, his play, then, constructs Romans with an anachronistic Christian sensibility that might have been influenced by St. Augustine ’ s Confessions among others.

* Plutarch, Lives

The artistic unity of his work suffered severely from the frequent and lengthy digressions, of which the most important was On the Athenian Demagogues in the 10th book of the Philippica, containing a bitter attack on many of the chief Athenian statesmen, and generally recognized as having been freely used by Plutarch in several of the Lives.

* The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Plutarch (~ 75 AD ).

* Plutarch, Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, " Tiberius Gracchus ".

-translated by John Dryden, with revision by Arthur Hugh Clough, as Plutarch: Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans ( London, John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd .)

* Plutarch ( 2000 ), The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans. Canada: Random House of Canada.

Both Livy ( in Latin, living in Augustus ' time ) and Plutarch ( in Greek, a century later ), described how Rome had developed its legislation, notably the transition from a kingdom to a republic, by following the example of the Greeks.

Plutarch is the only ancient source for this account and yet it is considered credible on the basis of some literary evidence ( Pindar wrote a paean celebrating Ceos, in which he says on behalf of the island " I am renowned for my athletic achievements among Greeks " 4, epode 1, a circumstance that suggests that Bacchylides himself was unavailable at the time.

* Plutarch states that The soul of Isis is called Dog by the Greeks

The earliest known name for the mare may be " The Shrine of Hecate "; Plutarch records that the Ancient Greeks gave this name to the largest of the " hollows and deeps " on the Moon, believing it to be the place where the soul of the deceased were tormented.

Plutarch suggests that in the aftermath of the victory at the Eurymedon, Artaxerxes had agreed a peace treaty with the Greeks, even naming Callias as the Athenian ambassador involved.

There was no open conflict between the Greeks and Persia until 396 BC, when the Spartan king Agesilaus briefly invaded Asia Minor ; as Plutarch points out, the Greeks were far too busy overseeing the destruction of their own power to fight against the " barbarians ".

Plutarch reports that a conspiracy was discovered among some prominent Athenians, who were planning to betray the Allied cause ; although this account is not universally accepted, it may indicate Mardonius ' attempts to intrigue with the Greeks.

Ancient Greeks ( Strabo, Herodotus, Plutarch, Homer, etc.

Seleucus is known from the writings of Plutarch, Aetius, and Strabo, all of whom were Greeks, and the Persian Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi.

Plutarch attacked Herodotus ' view that the Greeks had learned from barbarians.

Plutarch structured his Lives by alternating lives of famous Greeks (" Grecians ") with those of famous Romans.