Plutarch's Lives, Volume 3 (of 4)
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- No scanning noise detected (automatic measure over the whole text, not checked by hand)
- Extent:
- ~240,000 words · 1,138 passages
Cite this work
- APAPlutarch. (n.d.). Plutarch's Lives, Volume 3 (of 4). Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/plutarch/plutarch-s-lives-volume-3-of-4
- MLAPlutarch. Plutarch's Lives, Volume 3 (of 4). Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/plutarch/plutarch-s-lives-volume-3-of-4.
- ChicagoPlutarch. Plutarch's Lives, Volume 3 (of 4). Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/plutarch/plutarch-s-lives-volume-3-of-4.
Reference to the edition that SigPhi reproduces: SigPhi is its digital reproduction, not its publisher. The edition's year is not in the metadata (hence "n.d."), and the translator appears only when recorded.
What it is about
The third volume of a four-volume edition of the Parallel Lives.
Context and history
Worth knowing before starting: the catalogue holds TWO different editions of the Lives, this one in four volumes and another in a single volume. They are not different works, nor do they complement each other; they are the same text differently presented, and the division into volumes is the publisher's, not Plutarch's, who wrote independent pairs of lives. To cite him, the custom is to give the subject's name and the chapter — 'Alexander 1' — which works in any edition.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
thought, for no adequate reasons, had involved the Greeks in the greatest miseries, while the former had relieved them of their troubles by persuading them to become friends. For this reason this peace is to this day called the peace of Nikias. X. The terms of the peace were that each party should restore the cities and territory which it had taken, and that it should be determined by lot which side should restore its conquests first. We are told by Theophrastus that Nikias, by means of bribery, arranged that the lot should fall upon the Lacedæmonians to make restitution first. When, however, the Corinthians and Bœotians, dissatisfied with the whole transaction, seemed likely by their complaints and menaces to rekindle the war, Nikias induced Athens and Sparta to confirm the peace by entering upon an alliance, which enabled them to deal with the malcontents with more authority, and give them more confidence in one another. All these transactions greatly displeased Alkibiades, who was naturally disinclined to peace, and who hated the Lacedæmonians because they paid their court to Nikias and disregarded him. For this reason, Alkibiades from the very outset opposed the peace, but ineffectually at first. When, however, he observed that the Lacedæmonians were no longer regarded with favour by the Athenians, and were thought to have wronged them by forming an alliance with the Bœotians, and not restoring to Athens up the cities of Panaktus and Amphipolis, he seized the opportunity of exciting the people by exaggerated accounts of the misdeeds of the Lacedæmonians. Moreover he prevailed upon the people of Argos to send ambassadors to Athens to conclude an alliance.…