Alexander the Great was born in July 356 BC. While the exact day can vary slightly, it is generally cited as July 20th or 21st ...

Plutarch gives readers a little follow-up moment, here in Pamela Mensch’s translation: When Cato tried to argue against these measures, Caesar had him led off to prison, ...

Plutarch adds judiciously: "This was wrongfully reported of him." Plutarch's voice is decent, tolerant, knowing—the voice of a grown-up. In his life of Cleomenes (III), ...

On Plutarch as a moralist and historian. Literary fashion is a mysterious thing. Why is it that Sir Walter Scott, for example, whom generations of readers found absolutely spellbinding, is unread and, ...

Plutarch, better than any other ancient writer, affords the means of estimating the motives, the principles, the objects, of the men of the old time. We see in his pages what they were; ...