Editing Parallel Lives (section)

== Biographies ==
Plutarch structured his ''Lives'' by pairing lives of famous Greeks with those of famous Romans. After each pair of lives he generally writes out a comparison of the preceding biographies.{{efn|Except for [[Agis IV]] and [[Cleomenes III]] of Sparta, and [[Tiberius Gracchus|Tiberius]] and [[Gaius Gracchus]], who are grouped together as a set of four.}} The table below gives the list of the biographies. Its order follows the one found in the ''Lamprias Catalogue'', the list of Plutarch's works made by his hypothetical son Lamprias.<ref>''Plutarch's Moralia'', XV, edited and translated by F. H. Sandbach, Loeb Classical Library, 1987, pp. 3–11.</ref> The table also features links to several English translations of Plutarch's ''Lives'' available online. In addition to these 48 ''Parallel Lives'', Plutarch wrote four unpaired biographies that are not considered to be parts of the ''Parallel Lives'', but can be included in the term ''Plutarch's Lives''. The subjects of these four biographies are [[Artaxerxes II|Artaxerxes]], [[Aratus of Sicyon|Aratus]], [[Galba]], and [[Otho]].{{efn-lr|Key to abbreviations:<p>
'''D''': [[John Dryden|Dryden]] is famous for having lent his name as editor-in-chief to the first ''complete'' English translation of Plutarch's ''Lives''. This 17th-century translation is available at [http://classics.mit.edu/ The MIT Internet Classics Archive]. These translations are linked with '''D''' in the table below; those marked '''(D)''' in parentheses are incomplete in the HTML version.<p>

'''G''': [[Project Gutenberg]] contains several versions of 19th-century translations of these ''Lives'', see [http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/p#a342 here] and [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14114 here].  The full text version ([[Textbook|TXT]]) of the revision of Dryden's translation by the English poet [[Arthur Hugh Clough]] is available (via download) [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/674 Gutenberg here]. These translations are linked with '''G''' in the table below.<p>

'''L''': [[LacusCurtius]] has the translation by Bernadotte Perrin  of part of the ''Moralia'' and all the ''Lives'', published in the [[Loeb Classical Library]] 1914–1926; see [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/home.html here]. These translations are linked with '''L''' in the table below.<p>

'''LV''': [[LibriVox]] has many free public-domain audiobooks of the ''Parallel Lives'', Volumes I, II, and III.  These translations are linked with '''LV''' in the table below.<p>

'''P''': The [[Perseus Project]] has several of the ''Lives'', see [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cache/perscoll_Greco-Roman.html here]. The ''Lives'' available on the Perseus website are in Greek and in the English translation by Bernadotte Perrin (see under L above), and/or in an abbreviated version of [[Thomas North]]'s translations. This edition concentrates on those of the ''Lives'' that [[Shakespeare]] based plays on: North's translations of most of the Lives, based on the French version by [[Jacques Amyot]], preceded Dryden's translation mentioned above.  These translations are linked with '''P''' in the table.}}

All dates are [[Anno Domini|BC]].

{| class=wikitable
|-
!rowspan=2|№
!colspan=3|Greek
!colspan=3|Roman
!rowspan=2|Comparison
|-
!Life
!Years
!Translations
!Life
!Years
!Translations
|-
|1
|[[Theseus]]
|[[myth]]ic
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/theseus.html '''D'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/0/3/14033/14033-h/14033-h.htm#LIFE_OF_THESEUS '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Theseus*.html '''L'''] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Plut.+Thes.+1.1 '''P'''] [https://archive.org/download/parallel_lives01_0810_librivox1/parallellives01_01_plutarchperrin.mp3 '''LV''']
|[[Romulus]]
|{{fl.}} 771–717
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/romulus.html '''D'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/0/3/14033/14033-h/14033-h.htm#LIFE_OF_ROMULUS '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Romulus*.html '''L''']
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/r_t_comp.html '''D'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/0/3/14033/14033-h/14033-h.htm#COMPARISON_THESEUS_ROMULUS '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Theseus%2BRomulus*.html '''L''']
|-
|2
|[[Lycurgus (lawgiver)|Lycurgus]]
|{{fl.}} {{circa}} 820
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/lycurgus.html '''(D)'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/0/3/14033/14033-h/14033-h.htm#LIFE_OF_LYKURGUS '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Lycurgus*.html '''L''']
|[[Numa Pompilius]]
|715–673
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/numa_pom.html '''D'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/0/3/14033/14033-h/14033-h.htm#LIFE_OF_NUMA '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Numa*.html '''L''']
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/n_l_comp.html '''D'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/0/3/14033/14033-h/14033-h.htm#COMPARISON_OF_NUMA_WITH_LYKURGUS '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Lycurgus+Numa*.html '''L''']
|-
|3
|[[Themistocles]]
|{{circa}} 524–459
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/themisto.html '''D'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/0/3/14033/14033-h/14033-h.htm#LIFE_OF_THEMISTOKLES '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Themistocles*.html '''L'''] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Plut.+Them.+1.1 '''P''']
|[[Marcus Furius Camillus|Camillus]]
|446–365
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/camillus.html '''(D)'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/0/3/14033/14033-h/14033-h.htm#LIFE_OF_CAMILLUS '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Camillus*.html '''L''']
|n/a
|-
|4
|[[Solon]]
|638–558
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/solon.html '''D'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/0/3/14033/14033-h/14033-h.htm#LIFE_OF_SOLON '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Solon*.html '''L'''] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Plut.+Sol.+1.1 '''P''']
|[[Publius Valerius Poplicola|Poplicola]]
|d. 503
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/poplicol.html '''D'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/0/3/14033/14033-h/14033-h.htm#LIFE_OF_POPLICOLA '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Publicola*.html '''L''']
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/p_s_comp.html '''D'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/0/3/14033/14033-h/14033-h.htm#COMPARISON_OF_SOLON_AND_POPLICOLA '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Solon%2BPublicola*.html '''L''']
|-
|5
|[[Pericles]]
|{{circa}} 495–429
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/pericles.html '''(D)'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/0/3/14033/14033-h/14033-h.htm#LIFE_OF_PERIKLES '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Pericles*.html '''L'''] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Plut.+Per.+1.1 '''P''']
|[[Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus|Fabius Maximus]]
|275–203
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/fabius.html '''D'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/0/3/14033/14033-h/14033-h.htm#LIFE_OF_FABIUS_MAXIMUS '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Fabius_Maximus*.html '''L''']
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/fabius_p.html '''D'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/0/3/14033/14033-h/14033-h.htm#COMPARISON_OF_PERIKLES_AND_FABIUS_MAXIMUS '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Pericles%2BFabius_Maximus*.html '''L''']
|-
|6
|[[Alcibiades]]
|450–404
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/alcibiad.html '''(D)'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/0/3/14033/14033-h/14033-h.htm#LIFE_OF_ALKIBIADES '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Alcibiades*.html '''L'''] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Plut.+Alc.+1.1 '''P''']
|[[Gaius Marcius Coriolanus|Coriolanus]]
|{{fl.}} 475
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/coriolan.html '''(D)'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/0/3/14033/14033-h/14033-h.htm#LIFE_OF_CAIUS_MARCIUS_CORIOLANUS '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Coriolanus*.html '''L'''] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Plut.+Cor.+1 '''P''']
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/compared.html '''D'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/0/3/14033/14033-h/14033-h.htm#COMPARISON_OF_ALKIBIADES_AND_CORIOLANUS '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Alcibiades%2BCoriolanus*.html '''L''']
|-
|7
|[[Epaminondas]]
|d. 362
|Lost
|[[Scipio Africanus]] or [[Scipio Aemilianus|Aemilianus]]<ref>Kevin Herbert, "[https://www.jstor.org/stable/291992 The Identity of Plutarch's Lost Scipio] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190713160054/https://www.jstor.org/stable/291992|date=2019-07-13}}", in ''The American Journal of Philology'', Vol. 78, No. 1 (1957), pp. 83–88. Plutarch only gives the name "Scipio". Herbert favours Scipio Aemilianus as the topic of the lost Life; he notes that Scipio Africanus was the subject of another (lost) biography by Plutarch.</ref>
|236–183 or 185–129
|Lost
|
|-
|8
|[[Phocion]]
|{{circa}} 402 – {{circa}} 318
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/phocion.html '''D'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/1/4/14140/14140-h/14140-h.htm#LIFE_OF_PHOKION '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Phocion*.html '''L'''] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Plut.+Phoc.+1.1 '''P''']
|[[Cato the Younger]]
|95–46
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/cato_you.html '''(D)'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/1/4/14140/14140-h/14140-h.htm#LIFE_OF_CATO '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Cato_Minor*.html '''L''']
|n/a
|-
| rowspan="2" |9–10
|[[Agis IV|Agis]]
|{{fl.}} 245
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/agis.html '''D'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Agis*.html '''L''']
|[[Tiberius Gracchus]]
|c. 164–133
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/tiberius.html '''D'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Tiberius_Gracchus*.html '''L''']
| rowspan="2" |[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/t_c_comp.html '''D'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Agis_and_Cleomenes+Gracchi*.html '''L''']
|-
|[[Cleomenes III|Cleomenes]]
|d. 219
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/cleomene.html '''D'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Cleomenes*.html '''L''']
|[[Gaius Gracchus]]
|154–121
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/gracchus.html '''D'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Caius_Gracchus*.html '''L''']
|-
|11
|[[Timoleon]]
|{{circa}} 411–337
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/timoleon.html '''(D)'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/0/3/14033/14033-h/14033-h.htm#LIFE_OF_TIMOLEON '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Timoleon*.html '''L''']
|[[Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus|Aemilius Paullus]]
|{{circa}} 229–160
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/paulus.html '''(D)'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/0/3/14033/14033-h/14033-h.htm#LIFE_OF_AEMILIUS '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Aemilius*.html '''L''']
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/t_a_comp.html '''D'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/0/3/14033/14033-h/14033-h.htm#COMPARISON_OF_PAULUS_AEMILIUS_AND_TIMOLEON '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Timoleon%2BAemilius*.html '''L''']
|-
|12
|[[Eumenes]]
|{{circa}} 362–316
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/eumenes.html '''D'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/1/4/14140/14140-h/14140-h.htm#LIFE_OF_EUMENES '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Eumenes*.html '''L''']
|[[Quintus Sertorius|Sertorius]]
|{{circa}} 123–72
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/sertoriu.html '''D'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/1/4/14140/14140-h/14140-h.htm#LIFE_OF_SERTORIUS '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Sertorius*.html '''L''']
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/s_e_comp.html '''D'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/1/4/14140/14140-h/14140-h.htm#COMPARISON_OF_SERTORIUS_AND_EUMENES '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Eumenes+Sertorius*.html '''L''']
|-
|13
|[[Aristides]]
|530–468
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/aristide.html '''D'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/1/1/14114/14114-h/14114-h.htm#LIFE_OF_ARISTEIDES '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Aristides*.html '''L'''] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Plut.+Arist.+1.1 '''P''']
|[[Cato the Elder]]
|234–149
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/mar_cato.html '''D'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/1/1/14114/14114-h/14114-h.htm#LIFE_OF_MARCUS_CATO '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Cato_Major*.html '''L''']
|[https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/1/1/14114/14114-h/14114-h.htm#COMPARISON_OF_Aristides_AND_CATO '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Aristides%2BCato_Major*.html '''L''']
|-
|14
|[[Pelopidas]]
|d. 364
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/pelopida.html '''D'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/1/1/14114/14114-h/14114-h.htm#LIFE_OF_PELOPIDAS '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Pelopidas*.html '''L''']
|[[Marcus Claudius Marcellus|Marcellus]]
|268–208
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/marcellu.html '''D'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/1/1/14114/14114-h/14114-h.htm#LIFE_OF_MARCELLUS '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Marcellus*.html '''L''']
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/p_m_comp.html '''D'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/1/1/14114/14114-h/14114-h.htm#THE_COMPARISON_OF_PELOPIDAS_WITH_MARCELLUS '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Pelopidas%2BMarcellus*.html '''L''']
|-
|15
|[[Lysander]]
|d. 395
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/lysander.html '''D'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/1/1/14114/14114-h/14114-h.htm#LIFE_OF_LYSANDER '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Lysander*.html '''L'''] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Plut.+Lys.+1.1 '''P''']
|[[Sulla]]
|138–78
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/sylla.html '''(D)'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/1/1/14114/14114-h/14114-h.htm#LIFE_OF_SULLA '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Sulla*.html '''L''']
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/l_s_comp.html '''D'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/1/1/14114/14114-h/14114-h.htm#COMPARISON_OF_LYSANDER_AND_SULLA '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Lysander%2BSulla*.html '''L''']
|-
|16
|[[Pyrrhus of Epirus|Pyrrhus]]
|319/318–272
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/pyrrhus.html '''(D)'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/1/1/14114/14114-h/14114-h.htm#LIFE_OF_PYRRHUS '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Pyrrhus*.html '''L''']
|[[Gaius Marius|Marius]]
|157–86
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/c_marius.html '''(D)'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/1/1/14114/14114-h/14114-h.htm#LIFE_OF_CAIUS_MARIUS '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Marius*.html '''L''']
|n/a
|-
|17
|[[Philopoemen]]
|253–183
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/philopoe.html '''D'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/1/1/14114/14114-h/14114-h.htm#LIFE_OF_PHILOPOEMEN '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Philopoemen*.html '''L''']
|[[Titus Quinctius Flamininus|Titus Flamininus]]
|{{circa}} 229–174
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/flaminin.html '''D'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/1/1/14114/14114-h/14114-h.htm#LIFE_OF_TITUS_FLAMININUS '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Flamininus*.html '''L''']
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/p_f_comp.html '''D'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/1/1/14114/14114-h/14114-h.htm#COMPARISON_OF_PHILOPOEMEN_AND_TITUS '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Philopoemen%2BFlamininus*.html '''L''']
|-
|18
|[[Nicias]]
|470–413
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/nicias.html '''D'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/1/4/14140/14140-h/14140-h.htm#LIFE_OF_NIKIAS '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Nicias*.html '''L'''] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Plut.+Nic.+1.1 '''P''']
|[[Marcus Licinius Crassus|Crassus]]
|{{circa}} 115–53
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/crassus.html '''(D)'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/1/4/14140/14140-h/14140-h.htm#LIFE_OF_CRASSUS '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Crassus*.html '''L''']
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/crasus_n.html '''D'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/1/4/14140/14140-h/14140-h.htm#COMPARISON_OF_NIKIAS_AND_CRASSUS '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Nicias+Crassus*.html '''L''']
|-
|19
|[[Cimon]]
|510–450
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/cimon.html '''D'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/1/1/14114/14114-h/14114-h.htm#LIFE_OF_KIMON '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Cimon*.html '''L'''] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Plut.+Cim.+1.1 '''P''']
|[[Lucullus]]
|118–57/56
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/lucullus.html '''(D)'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/1/1/14114/14114-h/14114-h.htm#LIFE_OF_LUCULLUS '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Lucullus*.html '''L''']
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/l_c_comp.html '''D'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/1/1/14114/14114-h/14114-h.htm#COMPARISON_OF_KIMON_AND_LUCULLUS '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Cimon+Lucullus*.html '''L''']
|-
|20
|[[Dion of Syracuse|Dion]]
|408–354
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/dion.html '''(D)'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Dion*.html '''L''']
|[[Marcus Junius Brutus|Brutus]]
|85–42
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/m_brutus.html '''(D)'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Brutus*.html '''L'''] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Plut.+Brut.+1 '''P''']
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/d_brutus.html '''D'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Dion%2BBrutus*.html '''L''']
|-
|21
|[[Agesilaus II|Agesilaus]]
|{{circa}} 444 – {{circa}} 360
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/agesilus.html '''(D)'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/1/4/14140/14140-h/14140-h.htm#LIFE_OF_AGESILAUS '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Agesilaus*.html '''L''']
|[[Pompey]]
|106–48
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/pompey.html '''(D)'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/1/4/14140/14140-h/14140-h.htm#LIFE_OF_POMPEIUS '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Pompey*.html '''L''']
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/p_a_comp.html '''D'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/1/4/14140/14140-h/14140-h.htm#COMPARISON_OF_AGESILAUS_AND_POMPEIUS '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Agesilaus+Pompey*.html '''L''']
|-
|22
|[[Alexander the Great|Alexander]]
|356–323
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/alexandr.html '''(D)'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/1/4/14140/14140-h/14140-h.htm#LIFE_OF_ALEXANDER '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Alexander*/home.html '''L'''] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Plut.+Alex.+1 '''P''']
|[[Julius Caesar]] ([[Life of Caesar (Plutarch)|detailed article]])
|100–44
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/caesar.html '''(D)'''] [https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/1/4/14140/14140-h/14140-h.htm#LIFE_OF_C_CAESAR '''G'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Caesar*.html '''L'''] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Plut.+Caes.+1 '''P'''1] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.03.0078&query=head%3D%232 '''P'''2]{{ref|perseus}}
|n/a
|-
|23
|[[Demosthenes]]
|384–322
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/demosthe.html '''D'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Demosthenes*.html '''L''']
|[[Cicero]]
|106–43
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/cicero.html '''(D)'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Cicero*.html '''L''']
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/d_cicero.html '''D'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Demosthenes+Cicero*.html '''L''']
|-
|25<ref>Eran Almagor, "The Aratus and the Artaxerxes", in Mark Beck (editor), ''A Companion to Plutarch'', pp. 278, 279. The n°24 in the Lamprias catalogue was a pair of biographies of [[Aratus of Sicyon|Aratus]] and [[Artaxerxes II|Artaxerxes]], but they did not belong to the ''Parallel Lives''.</ref>
|[[Demetrius I of Macedon|Demetrius]]
|d. 283
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/demetrus.html '''(D)'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Demetrius*.html '''L''']
|[[Mark Antony]]
|83–30
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/antony.html '''(D)'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Antony*.html '''L'''] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Plut.+Ant.+1 '''P''']
|[http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/d_antony.html '''D'''] [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Demetrius+Antony*.html '''L''']
|}
;Notes
The two-volume edition of Dryden's translation contains the following biographies:
Volume 1.
Theseus, Romulus, Lycurgus, Numa,
Solon, Publicola, Themistocles, Camillus, Pericles, Fabius, Alcibiades, Coriolanus, Timoleon, Aemilius Paulus, Pelopidas, Marcellus, Aristides, Cato the Elder, Philopoemen, Flamininus, Pyrrhus, Marius, Lysander, Sulla, Cimon, Lucullus, Nicias, Crassus.
Volume 2.
Sertorius, Eumenes, Agesilaus, Pompey, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Phocion, Cato the Younger, Agis, Cleomenes, Tiberius Gracchus and Gaius Gracchus, Demosthenes, Cicero, Demetrius, Mark Antony, Dion, Marcus Brutus, Aratus, Artaxerxes II, Galba, Otho.

# {{note|North}} The Perseus project also contains a biography of [[Caesar Augustus]], in North's translation, but not from Plutarch's ''Parallel Lives'':  [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.03.0078&query=head%3D%235 '''P''']
# {{note|order}} Though the majority of the Parallel Lives were written with the Greek hero (or heroes) placed in the first position followed by the Roman hero, there are three sets of Lives where this order is reversed: ''Aemilius Paulus/Timoleon'', ''Coriolanus/Alcibiades'' and ''Sertorius/Eumenes''.
# {{note|perseus}} At the time of composing this table there appears some confusion in the internal linking of the Perseus project webpages, responsible for this split in two references.