Lives of the Noble Greeks Author:Plutarch, Edmund Fuller (Editor) "The glory that was Greece" is nowhere better preserved for the student and the modern reading than in PLUTARCH'S LIVES. Here is one of the most nearly contemporary accounts of the careers of the great lawgivers and governors of Athens: Pericles, Alcibiades, Demosthenes, Alexander the Great, Solon, Lycurgus, Theseus, Themistocles, ... more »Timoleon.« less