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Plutarch is a main narrative source for the Republican period apart from Appian, and a hell of a lot more entertaining as a read. This edition is a strong translation and full of useful notes. The selection is fairly strong. There must have been fairly good reasons for omitting the younger Cato, Numa, Pyrrhus and for substituting Aemilius Paullus for Lucullus, I'm guessing because the current selection covers the main figures and the whole period of the republic. His accounts are characterized by fairly imprecise coverage of the big campaigns, Sulla then Pompey in Asia, Caesar in Gaul, all the civil wars, long Middle Platonist disquisitions on character/psychology and the odd interesting anecdote (c.f. the story about the exoteric oeuvre of Aristotle surviving, buried in Anatolia).