Plutarch was indisputably one of the most prominent of the philosophers and biographers of the ancient world. The papers of this book analyze from diverse perspectives Plutarch's use and reshaping of the historical tradition, under two broad and interdependent categories: biographical techniques and appropriation of sources. A wide spectrum of lives from different historical periods of Greece and Rome is examined in depth: Pericles, Alcibiades, Nicias, Lysander, Eumenes, Pyrrhus, Publicola, Sertorius, and Antony. The book offers studies of elements such as the parallelism which makes a pair...