THE COMPARISON OF ROMULUS WITH THESEUS by Plutarch translated by John Dryden This is what I have learned of Romulus and Theseus, worthy of memory...

THE COMPARISON OF SERTORIUS WITH EUMENES by Plutarch translated by John Dryden THESE are the most remarkable passages that are come to our knowledge concerning Eumenes and Sertorius. In comparing their lives, we may observe that this was common to them both; that being aliens, strangers, and banished men, they came to be commanders of powerful forces, and had the leading of numerous and warlike armies, made up of divers nations...

THE COMPARISON OF TIBERIUS AND CAIUS GRACCHUS WITH AGIS AND CLEOMENES by Plutarch translated by John Dryden HAVING given an account severally of these persons, it remains only that we should take a view of them in comparison with one another. As for the Gracchi, the greatest detractors and their worst enemies could not but allow that they had a genius to virtue beyond all other Romans, which was improved also by a generous education...

THE COMPARISON OF TIMOLEON WITH AEMILIUS PAULUS by Plutarch translated by John Dryden SUCH being the story of these two great men’s lives, without doubt in the comparison very little difference will be found between them. They made war with two powerful enemies: the one against the Macedonians, and the other with the Carthaginians; and the success was in both cases glorious...

75 AD CORIOLANUS Legendary, 5th Century B.C. by Plutarch translated by John Dryden THE patrician house of the Marcii in Rome produced many men of distinction, and among the rest, Ancus Marcius, grandson to Numa by his daughter, and king after Tullus Hostilius; of the same family were also Publius and Quintus Marcius, which two conveyed into the city the best and most abundant supply of water they have at Rome...

75 AD CRASSUS 115?-53 B.C. by Plutarch translated by John Dryden MARCUS CRASSUS, whose father had borne the office of a censor, and received the honour of a triumph, was educated in a little house together with his two brothers, who both married in their parents’ lifetime; they kept but one table amongst them; all which, perhaps, was not the least reason of his own temperance and moderation in diet...

DEMETRIUS 337?-283 B.C. by Plutarch translated by John Dryden INGENIOUS men have long observed a resemblance between the arts and the bodily senses...

DEMOSTHENES 385?-322 B.C. by Plutarch translated by John Dryden WHOEVER it was, Sosius, that wrote the poem in honour of Alcibiades, upon his winning the chariot-race at the Olympian Games, whether it were Euripides, as is most commonly thought, or some other person, he tells us that to a man’s being happy it is in the first place requisite he should be born in "some famous city...

DION 408?-353 B.C...

EUMENES Reigned 197-160? B.C...