ONE OF THE FEW COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED EDITIONS OF PLUTARCH'S LIVES--all fifty biographies, and eighteen comparisons.

"To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days." Plutarch

"I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my power or possessions." Plutarch

"Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech." Plutarch

"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future." Plutarch

"It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything." Plutarch

Plutarch's Lives is a brilliant collection of biographies by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. By comparing a famous Roman with a famous Greek, Plutarch intended to provide model patterns of behaviour and to encourage mutual respect between Greeks and Romans.  There are fifty biographies of famous soldiers, legislators, orators, and statesmen, and an additional eighteen comparisons.  The form of