THEAETETUS by Plato translated by Benjamin Jowett PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: SOCRATES; THEODORUS; THEAETETUS Euclid and Terpsion meet in front of Euclid’s house in Megara; they enter the house, and the dialogue is read to them by a servant. Euclid. Have you only just arrived from the country, Terpsion? Terpsion...

TIMAEUS by Plato translated by Benjamin Jowett PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE SOCRATES CRITIAS TIMAEUS HERMOCRATES Socrates. One, two, three; but where, my dear Timaeus, is the fourth of those who were yesterday my guests and are to be my entertainers to-day? Timaeus. He has been taken ill, Socrates; for he would not willingly have been absent from this gathering...

75 AD Plutarch translated by John Dryden HAVING mentioned the most memorable actions of these great men, if we now compare the whole life of the one with that of the other, it will not be easy to discern the difference between them, lost as it is amongst such a number of circumstances in which they resemble each other...

AEMILIUS PAULUS 229-160 B.C. by Plutarch translated by John Dryden ALMOST all agree that the Aemilii were one of the ancient and patrician houses in Rome; and those authors who affirm that King Numa was pupil to Pythagoras tell us that the first who gave name to his posterity was Mamercus, the son of Pythagoras, who, for his grace and address in speaking, was called Aemilius...

AGESILAUS 485-401 B.C. by Plutarch translated by John Dryden ARCHIDAMUS, the son of Zeuxidamus, having reigned gloriously over the Lacedaemonians, left behind him two sons, Agis the elder, begotten of Lampido, a noble lady, Agesilaus, much the younger, born of Eupolia, the daughter of Melesippidas...

ALCIBIADES 450-404 B.C. by Plutarch translated by John Dryden ALCIBIADES, as it is supposed, was anciently descended from Eurysaces, the son of Ajax, by his father’s side; and by his mother’s side from Alcmaeon...

ALEXANDER 356-323 B.C. by Plutarch translated by John Dryden IT being my purpose to write the lives of Alexander the king, and of Caesar, by whom Pompey was destroyed, the multitude of their great actions affords so large a field that I were to blame if I should not by way of apology forewarn my reader that I have chosen rather to epitomize the most celebrated parts of their story, than to insist at large on every particular circumstance of it...

ANTONY 83?-30 B.C. by Plutarch translated by John Dryden THE grandfather of Antony was the famous pleader, whom Marius put to death for having taken part with Sylla...

ARATUS 271-213 B.C...

ARISTIDES 530?-468? B.C. by Plutarch translated by John Dryden   ARISTIDES, the son of Lysimachus, was of the tribe Antiochis, and township of Alopece...