Includes short (30-50 page) biographies of selected Greek statesmen and philosophers and generals living prior to Plutarch’s life. Each contains basic facts about the men’s lives, their beliefs, actions, deaths, their legacy, and saying attributed to them, with some editorializing on the author’s part. An introduction by Philip Stadter, bibliographies, maps, chronology, explanatory and textual notes, and indexes of sources and names cap off the biographies of Lycurgus, Solon, Themistocles, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, Alcibiades, Agesilaus, and Alexander. Violence, discussions of sex and sexuality, including homosexuality in a favorable light.