“I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror…The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I receive and welcome each of them in turn as my guest.”

Here, Plutarch introduces the major figures and periods of classical Greece, detailing the lives of nine personages, including Lycurgus, Solon, Themistocles, Cimon, Alexander, Pericles, Nicias, Alcibiades, and Agesilaus. Oxford presents the most comprehensive selection available, superbly translated and accompanied by a lucid introduction, explanatory notes, bibliographies, maps, and indexes.

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Review

`It is … a privilege to be offered this sparkling new translation of nine of his Greek Lives by Robin Waterfield…. It is … a distinguishing trait of Waterfield's that in the interests of scholarship he will go to endless lengths to find the mot juste; … the book entirely fulfils the publisher's own criteria for inclusion in the new Oxford World's Classics list, namely to make available 'celebrated writing' in editions equipped with'perceptive commentary and essential back-ground information to meet the changing needs of readers'. To do all that also at a very modest price is an ergon (achievement) indeed.' Paul Cartledge, The Anglo-Hellenic Review

`This attractively produced addition to the Oxford World's Classics series.' Daniel Ogden, The Classical Review Vol.XLIX No.2

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Greek