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Excerpt from Plutarch's Themistocles and Aristides I do not forget Niebuhr's quotation from Wilhelm von Humboldt: Es soll mir Alles recht sein, wenn man Plutarch nur nicht' als Geschichtsschreiber betrachtet, and I neither regard Plutarch as an historian nor would I have others do so. We must admire and love Plutarch for what he is, not rely upon him or criticise him for what he is not and did not try to be. But, in the dearth of testimony for obscure events in ancient history, Plutarch will often be brought to the stand as a witness; in that case only those who know him thor oughly as the artist in ethical portrait-painting which he tried to be, can judge of the worth of his witness on an historical question. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.