Plutarch Audio Books

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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.

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

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.

Though he was Greek, Plutarch wrote his Lives in the first century, a world dominated by the Roman Empire....

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.

The Moralia (or The morals or Matters relating to customs and mores) is a work by the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea.