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LibriVox Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus

Parallel Lives
of the Noble
Greeks and
Romans,
Volume 3

Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, Vol. 3

By Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (c. 46-120)
Translated by Bernadotte Perrin (1847-1920)

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.

Plutarch was not concerned with writing histories, as such, but in exploring the influence of character,
good or bad, on the lives and destinies of famous men. The first pair of lives the Epaminondas-Scipio
Africanus no longer exists, and many of the remaining lives are truncated, contain obvious lacunae
and/or have been tampered with by later writers.

His Life of Alexander is one of the five surviving secondary or tertiary sources about Alexander the
Great and it includes anecdotes and descriptions of incidents that appear in no other source.
Likewise, his portrait of Numa Pompilius, an early Roman king, also contains unique information
about the early Roman calendar.

In this copy-right expired 1 1 -volume translation from the Loeb Classical library, the order of the paired
lives is rearranged to present the Greek lives in chronological order. Vol 3 presents the paired lives of
Pericles and Fabius Maximus and Nicias and Crassus. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia by Karen
Merline.)

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Read by Sibella Denton & ontheroad; total running time: 05:46:03.
Coordinator/ Cataloging: Karen Merline.

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information or to volunteer, visit librivox.org. Cover image by Thomas Cole (1846). Copyright expired in US, Canada, EU, and
all countries with author's life +70 yrs laws. Cover design by Janette Brown. This design is in the public domain.

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