1. Plutarch's method of work in the Roman Lives --

2. Plutarch and Catiline --

3. The Apophthegmata Regum et Imperatorum and Plutarch's Roman Lives --

4. Plutarch's adaptation of his source-material --

5. Plutarch and Thucydides --

6. Truth and fiction in Plutarch's Lives --

7. 'Making myth look like history': Plutarch's Theseus-Romulus --

8. Dionysiac diagnostics: some hints of Dionysus in Plutarch's Lives --

9. Plutarch and Roman politics --

10. The moralism of Plutarch's Lives --

11. Plutarch's Caesar: a Caesar for the Caesars? --

12. 'You for me and me for you': narrator and narratee in Plutarch's Lives --

13. Aspects of Plutarch's characterization --

14. Childhood and personality in Greek biography --

15. Rhetoric, paideia, and psychology in Plutarch's Lives --

16. Synkrisis in Plutarch's Lives --

17. Is death the end? Closure in Plutarch's Lives --

18. The shaping of Coriolanus: Dionysius, Plutarch and Shakespeare --

Index of Plutarch passages.