Plutarch Audio

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Written at the beginning of the second century, Plutarch's collection of accounts of the lives of noble Grecians is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time.

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LibriVox recording of Plutarch's "Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Volume 1, translated by Bernadotte Perrin, and read by LibriVox volunteers.

Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving lives contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman, as well as four unpaired, single lives.

Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving lives contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman, as well as four unpaired, single lives.

A brilliant Greek writer and philosopher, Plutarch wrote detailed biographies of 46 legendary...

A principal source for Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, and Antony and Cleopatra, Plutarch’s Lives remains one of the world’s most influential literary works.

Plutarch’s assessment of Greek and Roman cultural and political leaders includes Alexander and Caesar, Demosthenes and Cicero, Demetrius and Antony, Dion and Marcus Brutus.