Plutarch, <br/><br/>
The rise and fall of Athens :  nine Greek lives : Theseus, Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, Alcibiades, Lysander / 
by Plutarch ; translated with an introduction by Ian Scott-Kilvert. 
 - 318 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates :  maps ;  18 cm. 
 - The Penguin classics .
<br/><br/> Thesus --  Solon --  Themistocles --  Aristides --  Cimon --  Pericles  Introduction -- 
<br/><br/> Writing at the turn of the first century A.D., Plutarch intentionally blended two cultures in his parallel lives of Greek and Roman heroes. The nine biographies chosen for this modern translation by Iaan Scott-Kilvert illustrate the rise and fall of Athens from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, to the age of Pericles and the razing of its walls by Lysander. The volume forms a companion to Plutarch's Fall of the Roman Republic and Makers of Rome (in the Penguin Classics). However readable accounts have necessarily been a prime source of much historical knowledge--from back cover. 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>63005876  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Greece--Biography.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Biographies.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DE7  / P74