Author: BARROW, R.H.,
Title: Plutarch and his Times.
Description: Chatto & Windus, London, 1967. XV,202p. Hard bound with pictorial dust wrappers. Mr. Barrow's attempt is on the whole successful, and the general reader, at least will be grateful for a work that summarizes the main facts known about Plutarch's life and discusses appreciatively the principal themes to be found in his writings. The first six chapters describe the historical and social background against which Plutarch is to be seen as a main figure, and accounts of certain of his works (...) are woven into the narrative as illustrative material. (...) Chapter 7, devoted to the Lives, is rather slight for a general book on Plutarch. (...) After a short chapter on the Roman Questions and Greek Questions there follow two long chapters, 9 and 10, each in several sections, entitled Plutarch as Teacher and Plutarch and the Roman Empire respectively. (...) This is the most successful part of the book, and Barrow is to be commended for his general account of the works that they cover (...).' (A.J. GOSSAGE in The Classical Review (New Series), 1968, pp.48-50).

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