The Age of Alexander by Plutarch. Baltimore. 1973. Penguin Books. 0140442863. Translated from the Latin by Ian Scott-Kilvert. 443 pages. paperback. The cover shows a posthumous portrait of Alexander the Great on a tetradrachm of Lysimachus of the third century B.C.  

DESCRIPTION - Plutarch's Lives of the great Greek statesmen and men of action were designed to pair with the now Roman portraits and contain many of his finest descriptions of war. revolution and heroic achievement. The nine Lives in this selection trace a crucial phase in ancient history, from the collapse of Athens to the rise of Macedonia. They include studies of Demosthenes and Phocion, the leading Athenian orators; of Agesilaus, the Spartan king, and Pelopidas, the Theban military hero: of Dion and Timoleon. the ‘liberators' of Sicily: and above all. of three generals - Demetrius ‘the Besieger', Pyrrhus and Alexander the Great.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY - Plutarch (AD c. 50-120) was a Greek writer and thinker whose Parallel Lives biographies have been influential since the time of the Renaissance.

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