Plutarch's Lives, Volume 3 (of 4) is a collection of biographies of prominent Greek and Roman statesmen and generals, including Nikias, Crassus, Alexander, and Caesar. It explores their characters, ambitions, and fortunes, offering moral reflections on leadership and human nature. Listening to it provides a window into the ancient world through Plutarch's comparative approach.
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PLUTARCH'S LIVES. Translated from the Greek WITH NOTES AND A LIFE OF PLUTARCH. BY AUBREY STEWART, M.A., Late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, AND THE LATE GEORGE LONG, M.A., Formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge,. IN FOUR VOLUMES. VOL. III. LONDON: GEORGE BELL & SONS, YORK ST., COVENT GARDEN, AND NEW YORK. 1892. LONDON: REPRINTED FROM THE STEREOTYPE PLATES BY WM. CLOWES & SONS, LTD.,
STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.
CONTENTS.
LIFE OF NIKIAS.
1
LIFE OF CRASSUS. (By G. Long.)
36
COMPARISON OF NIKIAS AND CRASSUS.
89
LIFE OF SERTORIUS. (By G. Long.)
94
LIFE OF EUMENES.
130
COMPARISON OF SERTORIUS AND EUMENES. 150
LIFE OF AGESILAUS.
152
LIFE OF POMPEIUS. (By G. Long.)
195
COMPARISON OF AGESILAUS AND POMPEIUS. 295
LIFE OF ALEXANDER.
300
LIFE OF C. CÆSAR. (By G. Long.)
379
LIFE OF PHOKION.
466
LIFE OF CATO. (By G. Long.)
500
PLUTARCH'S LIVES.
LIFE OF NIKIAS.
As it appears to me that the life of Nikias forms a good parallel to that of Crassus, and that the misfortunes of the former in Sicily may be well compared with those of the latter in Parthia, I must beg of my readers to believe that in writing upon a subject which has been described by Thucydides with inimitable grace, clearness, and pathos,
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