Description of Cleopatra; from the Life of Antony
Anecdotes from the Life of Agesilaus
The Brothers; from the Life of Timoleon
The Wound of Philopoemen
A Roman Triumph; from the Life of Paulus Aemilius
The Noble Character of Caius Fabricius; from the Life of Pyrrhus
From the Life of Quintus Fabius Maximus
The Cruelty of Lucius Cornelius Sylla
The Luxury of Lucullus
From the Life of Sertorius the Roman, who endeavored to establish
a separate Government for himself in Spain
The Scroll; from the Life of Lysander
The Character of Marcus Cato
The Sacred Theban Band; from the Life of Pelopidas
From the Life of Titus Flamininus, Conqueror of Philip
Life of Alexander the Great
The Death of Caesar




Theseus

As geographers crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the
world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to
the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of
wild beasts, unapproachable bogs, Seythian ice, or frozen sea, so,
in this great work of mine, in which I have compared the lives of
the greatest men with one another, after passing through those
periods which probable reasoning can reach to and real history