Essays on Plutarch's Lives

This volume brings together the work of a wide range of international scholars on the most important themes in Plutarch's Greek and Roman Lives The essays include contributions on Plutarch's life and cultural milieu; his methodology; the chronological order of composition and the cross-references from one Life to another; the possibility that several biographies were edited simultaneously; the methods Plutarch adopted to summarize his own reading and research; the choice of subjects and of sources; his compositional techniques; and the criteria for selecting the Greek and Roman pairs.