Details: vi, 360 p. 21 cm. 6 colour plates. Brown cloth hardcover with black lettering. In mylar-covered pictorial dustjacket with small tears to upper edge and small tear in rear near spine. "Selected lives freely retold" include: Aristedes; Themistocles; Pelopidas; Timoleon; Alexander; Philopoemen; Coriolanus; The Gracchi; Caius Marius; Julius Caesar; Brutus.