Gentlemen’s
Classics Book Club
Read the great classics of the Western tradition with like-minded men every week in your city.
Find your chapterPlutarch’s Lives is a classical biographical work on the lives of illustrious men from the Greco-Roman world. Join Meriwether Academy as we meet every single week to discuss a new life, their virtues and vices, and how we as men can improve ourselves by their example.
This Season’s Lives
One life a week, straight through in the order the volume prints them. We skip the Comparisons and read only the individual Lives.
- Aug 31 PompeyRoman general and statesman, rival of Caesar
- Sept 7 AlexanderKing of Macedon, conqueror of the Persian empire
- Sept 14 CaesarRoman general and dictator
- Sept 21 PhocionAthenian general and statesman, called “the Good”
- Sept 28 Cato the YoungerRoman Stoic senator, last defender of the Republic
- Oct 5 AgisSpartan king who sought to restore the old discipline
- Oct 12 CleomenesSpartan king and reformer who took up the same cause
- Oct 19 Tiberius GracchusRoman tribune, author of the land reforms
- Oct 26 Caius GracchusRoman tribune, brother and successor to Tiberius
- Nov 2 DemosthenesAthenian orator who rallied Greece against Macedon
- Nov 9 CiceroRoman orator, consul, and philosopher
- Nov 16 DemetriusMacedonian king, called the Besieger of Cities
- Nov 23 AntonyRoman general and triumvir, ally of CleopatraThanksgiving
- Nov 30 DionSyracusan statesman and student of Plato
- Dec 7 Marcus BrutusRoman senator who led the conspiracy against Caesar
- Dec 14 AratusStatesman of Sicyon, leader of the Achaean League
- Dec 21 ArtaxerxesPersian king, the second of that nameChristmas
- Dec 28 GalbaRoman emperor raised up and cut down after NeroNew Year
- Jan 4 OthoRoman emperor, successor to Galba, and the final Life
Dates are listed by the week beginning that Monday; each chapter meets on its own morning within that week. Otho closes the volume, and after that we take up a new book.
Find Your Chapter
Each chapter meets weekly over coffee, before the workday begins. Choose your city to see the details and sign up.
No chapter in your city yet? Write to us about starting one.
Begin with the next life
No preparation is required beyond the week’s reading. Come once and see whether it suits you.
Find your chapter