Chaeronea

Certain · Boeotia

Here in 338 BCE Philip’s phalanx broke the allied Greeks and the age of the free city ended; the stone lion over the Theban Sacred Band still stands. Four centuries later the town’s priest of Delphi, Plutarch, wrote there the Parallel Lives and Moralia that fill so many shelves of this library — “living in a small town,” he said, “and choosing to stay lest it grow smaller.”