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Introduction; Part I: Two Worlds - or One?; 1 Friends or Patrons?; 2 Plutarch’s Lives and their Roman Readers; 3 Revisiting Plutarch’s Lives of the Caesars; 4 Plutarch: Diplomat for Delphi?; 5 Plutarch and Apollo of Delphi; 6 Drinking, Table Talk, and Plutarch’s Contemporaries; 7 Leading the Party, Leading the City: the Symposiarch as Politikos; Part II: Writing for Romans; 8 Before Pen Touched Paper: Plutarch’s preparations for the Parallel Lives; 9 Plutarch’s Latin Reading: Cicero’s Lucullus and Horace’s Epistle 1.6; 10 Plutarchan Prosopography: the Cursus honorum; 11 Plutarch and Trajanic Ideology; 12 The Justice of Trajan in Pliny Epistles 10 and Plutarch; 13 Plutarch’s Alexandrias; 14 The Philosopher’s Ambition: Plutarch, Arrian, and Marcus Aurelius; Part III: Statesmen as Models and Warnings; 15 Plutarch’s Lives: the Statesman as Moral Actor; 16 The Rhetoric of Virtue in Plutarch’s Lives; 17 Mirroring Virtue in Plutarch’s Lives; 18 Paidagogia pros to theion: Plutarch’s Numa; 19 Paradoxical Paradigms: Plutarch’s Lysander and Sulla; 20 Competition and its Costs: Φιλονικίa in Plutarch’s Society and Heroes; 21 Parallels in Three Dimensions; Part IV: Post-Classical Reception; 22 Cato the Younger in the English Enlightenment: Addison’s Rewriting of Plutarch; 23 Alexander Hamilton’s Notes on Plutarch in his Paybook; 24 Should we Imitate Plutarch’s Heroes?; Bibliography; Index of Plutarchan passages; Index of names and topics

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