Excerpt from Parallel Lives of Ancient and Modern Heroes: Of Epaminondas and Gustavus Adolphus; Philip of Macedon and Frederic the Great The early life of Epaminondas is involved in great obscurity; that, though poor, he was de scended from one of the most ancient and illus trions families in Thebes we know, but of the time of his birth we are ignorant; and, though we are told that his father's name was Polymnis. 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.