Plutarch represents the case of Greek intellectuals inserted in the political life of the Empire which peculiarity is the constitution of a Greek community in Rome that is shown in the writing and in the reproduction of practices and customs of classical Greece. Plutarch’s writing shows the tendency of these authors in idealizing Greece of his ancestors like a form of establishing a Greek identity as well as to respond to the Romans’ criticism to the Greeks’ customs. Under this perspective, we analyse the construction of Plutarch’s discourse during the archaic Greek period considering the biographies of Theseus and Lycurgus.Plutarco representa o caso de intelectuais gregos inseridos na vida política do Império cuja particularidade está na f...