Plutarch: The Age of Alexander Translated by Ian Scott~Kilvert (Penguin Classics)

Series Title: Penguin Classics

Story Title: The Age of Alexander: Nine Greek Lives

Date of Publication: 1973

Edition: Penguin Classics edition

Publisher: Penguin Books

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Language: English

ISBN: 9780140442861

Writers: Plutarch (original text); translated and annotated by Ian Scott-Kilvert; introduction by G.T. Griffith

Characters: Agesilaus, Pelopidas, Dion, Timoleon, Demosthenes, Phocion, Alexander the Great, Demetrius, Pyrrhus

Key Facts: Selection of nine of Plutarch’s Lives focusing on the late Classical and early Hellenistic period. Includes the famous Life of Alexander the Great along with other key Greek statesmen and generals. Translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert with introduction by G.T. Griffith. This is the original 1973 Penguin Classics edition (later revised and expanded in 2012 under a different ISBN).