The 25 papers cover first-century Greek biographer and philosopher Plutarch, his life, and his political activities; his presentation of statesmen; political, philosophical, and literary
aspects of his statesman; and the influence and aftermath of his statesman. Among specific topics are Plutarch and Pausanias at Delphi, classical and contemporary statesmen in Praecepta,
Plutarch on the statesman's independence of action, poetry and music in the life of his statesmen, the divinity of rulers and laws, the dreaming Kronos as world archon in De facie in orbe
lunae, Plutarch and Apuleius, the first printing of the Lives in 1517, and Plutarchian biography in 18th- century England. The second volume contains papers on Plutarch's Greek and Roman lives.
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