Plutarch's Lives

Vidas Paralelas de Plutarco. Traducida del griego, con notas, crítica histórica y una memoria del traductor, por los reverendos John y William Langhorne

The opening of Plutarch's Life of Themistokles

Plutarch begins the biography by selecting incidents and an epigram that anticipate the basic themes of Themistocles' life--his greatness, sometimes ambiguous, and his benefactions to all of Greece.