Greek: Biography
Plutarch’s parallel lives of the great Greeks and Romans — the most influential biographies ever written — with Diogenes Laertius’ lives of the philosophers and Philostratus’ lives of the sophists. Every text below is a complete parsing reader: click any word for its lemma, morphology, and full entry from the Liddell-Scott-Jones lexicon.
206 works
- Book of Aesop's Fables (Preface)Aesopica
- Short Life of AesopAesopica
- On Illustrious Men (Fragments)Amphicrates
- Contest of Homer and HesiodAnonymous
- Contest of Homer and Hesiod (Papyrus Fragment)Anonymous
- Fifth Life of HomerAnonymous
- Fourth Life of HomerAnonymous
- Life of Aratus (Vita I)Anonymous
- Life of Aratus (Vita II)Anonymous
- Life of Aratus (Vita III)Anonymous
- Life of Aratus (Vita IV)Anonymous
- Life of Aristotle (Vita Marciana)Anonymous
- Life of Aristotle (Vita Vulgata)Anonymous
- Life of Dionysius Periegetes (Vita Chisiana)Anonymous
- Life of Homer (Vita Romana)Anonymous
- Life of Oppian (Byzantine Prose Life)Anonymous
- Life of Oppian (Vita A)Anonymous
- Life of Oppian (Vita B)Anonymous
- Life of Secundus the PhilosopherAnonymous
- Life of SophoclesAnonymous
- Lives of AeschinesAnonymous
- Lives of EuripidesAnonymous
- Testimonia on Men Named Theon (Suda, Damascius)Anonymous
- Cologne Mani Codex (On the Origin of His Body)Anonymous
- Life of AeschinesApollonius (biographer) (attributed)
- FragmentsAristoxenus
- TestimoniaArrian
- Life of HypatiusCallinicus (hagiographer)
- Life of AbraamiusCyril of Scythopolis
- Life of CyriacusCyril of Scythopolis
- Life of GerasimusPseudo-Cyril of Scythopolis
- Life of John the HesychastCyril of Scythopolis
- Life of TheodosiusCyril of Scythopolis
- Life of TheogniusCyril of Scythopolis
- Life of EuthymiusCyril of Scythopolis
- Life of SabasCyril of Scythopolis
- Life of Isidore (Photius' Epitome)Damascius
- Life of Isidore (Fragments)Damascius
- Vitae philosophorumDiogenes Laertius
- TestimoniaDionysius of Halicarnassus
- TestimoniaDionysius Thrax
- Lives of the Sophists: LibaniusEunapius
- Life of HomerEustathius of Thessalonica
- Life of Homer (Vita VII)Eustathius of Thessalonica
- FragmentsHermippus of Smyrna
- Life of HomerPseudo-Herodotus
- TestimoniaHorapollo
- FragmentsIdomeneus of Lampsacus
- Life of Hesiod (Excerpt)John Tzetzes
- Life of HomerJohn Tzetzes
- Life of ThucydidesMarcellinus (biographer)
- Index Academicorum (Columns on Plato)Philodemus
- Life of Apollonius of TyanaPhilostratus the Athenian
- Lives of the SophistsPhilostratus the Athenian
- Ad principem ineruditumPlutarch
- Adversus ColotenPlutarch
- Aemilius PaulusPlutarch
- AgesilausPlutarch
- Agis and CleomenesPlutarch
- AlcibiadesPlutarch
- AlexanderPlutarch
- Amatoriae NarrationesPlutarch
- AmatoriusPlutarch
- An Recte Dictum Sit Latenter Esse VivendumPlutarch
- An Virtus Doceri PossitPlutarch
- An seni respublica gerenda sitPlutarch
- An vitiositas ad infelicitatem sufficiaPlutarch
- Animine an corporis affectiones sint peioresPlutarch
- AntonyPlutarch
- Apophthegmata LaconicaPlutarch
- Aquane an ignis sit utiliorPlutarch
- AratusPlutarch
- AristidesPlutarch
- ArtaxerxesPlutarch
- Bruta animalia ratione utiPlutarch
- BrutusPlutarch
- CaesarPlutarch
- Caius Marcius CoriolanusPlutarch
- Caius MariusPlutarch
- CamillusPlutarch
- Cato the YoungerPlutarch
- CiceroPlutarch
- CimonPlutarch
- Comparationis Aristophanis et Menandri compendiumPlutarch
- Comparison of Agesilaus and PompeyPlutarch
- Comparison of Agis and Cleomenes and the GracchiPlutarch
- Comparison of Alcibiades and CoriolanusPlutarch
- Comparison of Aristides and Marcus CatoPlutarch
- Comparison of Demetrius and AntonyPlutarch
- Comparison of Demosthenes and CiceroPlutarch
- Comparison of Dion and BrutusPlutarch
- Comparison of Lucullus and CimonPlutarch
- Comparison of Lycurgus and NumaPlutarch
- Comparison of Lysander and SullaPlutarch
- Comparison of Nicias and CrassusPlutarch
- Comparison of Pelopidas and MarcellusPlutarch
- Comparison of Pericles and Fabius MaximusPlutarch
- Comparison of Philopoemen and TitusPlutarch
- Comparison of Sertorius and EumenesPlutarch
- Comparison of Solon and PublicolaPlutarch
- Comparison of Theseus and RomulusPlutarch
- Comparison of Timoleon and AemiliusPlutarch
- Compendium argumenti Stoicos absurdiora poetis dicerePlutarch
- Conjugalia PraeceptaPlutarch
- Consolatio Ad UxoremPlutarch
- Consolatio ad ApolloniumPlutarch
- CrassusPlutarch
- De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtutePlutarch
- De Amore ProlisPlutarch
- De Cupiditate DivitiarumPlutarch
- De Defectu OraculorumPlutarch
- De E apud DelphosPlutarch
- De Facie Quae in orbe Lunae ApparetPlutarch
- De FatoPlutarch
- De GarrulitatePlutarch
- De Genio SocratisPlutarch
- De Heroditi malignatePlutarch
- De Invidia et OdioPlutarch
- De Iside et OsiridePlutarch
- De Pythiae oraculisPlutarch
- De Se Ipsum Citra Invidiam LaudandoPlutarch
- De Sera Numinis VindictaPlutarch
- De Stoicorum repugnantiisPlutarch
- De SuperstitionePlutarch
- De Tranquillitate AnimiPlutarch
- De Virtute MoraliPlutarch
- De Vitioso PudorePlutarch
- De amicorum multitudinePlutarch
- De animae procreatione in TimaeoPlutarch
- De capienda ex inimicis utilitatePlutarch
- De cohibenda iraPlutarch
- De communibus notitiis adversus StoicosPlutarch
- De curiositatePlutarch
- De esu carnium IPlutarch
- De esu carnium IIPlutarch
- De exilioPlutarch
- De fortunaPlutarch
- De fortuna RomanorumPlutarch
- De fraterno amorePlutarch
- De gloria AtheniensiumPlutarch
- De liberis educandisPlutarch
- De primo frigidoPlutarch
- De recta ratione audiendiPlutarch
- De sollertia animaliumPlutarch
- De tuenda sanitate praeceptaPlutarch
- De unius in republica dominatione, populari statu, et paucorum imperioPlutarch
- De virtute et vitioPlutarch
- De vitando aere alienoPlutarch
- DemetriusPlutarch
- DemosthenesPlutarch
- DionPlutarch
- Epitome libri de animae procreatione in TimaeoPlutarch
- EumenesPlutarch
- Fabius MaximusPlutarch
- GalbaPlutarch
- Instituta LaconiaPlutarch
- Lacaenarum ApophthegmataPlutarch
- LucullusPlutarch
- LycurgusPlutarch
- LysanderPlutarch
- MarcellusPlutarch
- Marcus CatoPlutarch
- Maxime Cum Principibus Viris Philosopho Esse DisserendumPlutarch
- Mulierum virtutesPlutarch
- NiciasPlutarch
- Non Posse Suaviter Vivi Secundum EpicurumPlutarch
- NumaPlutarch
- OthoPlutarch
- Parallela minoraPlutarch
- PelopidasPlutarch
- PericlesPlutarch
- PhilopoemenPlutarch
- PhocionPlutarch
- Platonicae quaestionesPlutarch
- PompeyPlutarch
- Praecepta gerendae reipublicaePlutarch
- PublicolaPlutarch
- PyrrhusPlutarch
- Quaestiones ConvivalesPlutarch
- Quaestiones GraecaePlutarch
- Quaestiones NaturalesPlutarch
- Quaestiones RomanaePlutarch
- Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeatPlutarch
- Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscaturPlutarch
- Quomodo quis suos in virtute sentiat profectusPlutarch
- Regum et imperatorum apophthegmataPlutarch
- RomulusPlutarch
- Septem sapientium conviviumPlutarch
- SertoriusPlutarch
- SolonPlutarch
- SullaPlutarch
- ThemistoclesPlutarch
- TheseusPlutarch
- Tiberius and Caius GracchusPlutarch
- TimoleonPlutarch
- Titus FlamininusPlutarch
- Vitae decem oratorumPlutarch
- De Homero I (Life of Homer)Pseudo-Plutarch
- Life of PlotinusPorphyry
- Life of PythagorasPorphyry
- Life of Homer (from the Chrestomathy)Proclus (attributed)
- FragmentsSatyrus of Callatis
- Life of EuripidesSatyrus of Callatis
- Life of HippocratesSoranus (attributed)
- Life of HomerSuda
- TestimoniaTheon of Alexandria