* 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.

* Plutarch, Parallel Lives ( Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans )

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

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.

Ancient authors such as Herodotus and Plutarch are the main source of information, yet they wrote about Solon long after his death, at a time when history was by no means an academic discipline.

According to Herodotus the country was bound by Solon to maintain his reforms for 10 years, whereas according to Plutarch and the author of Athenaion Politeia ( reputedly Aristotle ) the contracted period was instead 100 years.

According to Plutarch however, Solon originally wrote poetry for amusement, discussing pleasure in a popular rather than philosophical way.

According to Plutarch, Solon was related to the tyrant Pisistratus ( their mothers were cousins ).

* On the laws of Solon (), a work mentioned by Plutarch

Plutarch writes that Epimenides purified Athens after the pollution brought by the Alcmeonidae, and that the seer's expertise in sacrifices and reform of funeral practices were of great help to Solon in his reform of the Athenian state.

The only reward he would accept was a branch of the sacred olive, and a promise of perpetual friendship between Athens and Cnossus ( Plutarch, Life of Solon, 12 ; Aristotle, Ath.

Besides these prizes of honor, the city of Athens awarded victorious Athenians with an extra 100 drachmas .< ref > From Solon ( 638 – 558 BC ) onwards, for he laid it down that “ the victor in the Isthmian games was to be paid a hundred drachmas, and the Olympic victor five hundred ” ( Plutarch, Live of Solon 23. 3 ).

* Plutarch: " Lycurgus " and " Solon " from the Parallel Lives

We are told by Plutarch, that Solon " is much commended for his law concerning wills ; for before his time no man was allowed to make any, but all the wealth of deceased persons belonged to their families ; but he permitted them to bestow it on whom they pleased, esteeming friendship a stronger tie than kindred, and affection than necessity, and thus put every man's estate in the disposal of the possessor ; yet he allowed not all sorts of wills, but required the following conditions in all persons that made them:

Solon, an Athenian ( Greek ) of noble descent but moderate means, was a Lyric poet and later a lawmaker ; Plutarch placed him as one of the Seven Sages of the ancient world.