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Greek Lives

Audiobook
1 of 1 copy available
1 of 1 copy available

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. Still inspiration after 19 centuries, Plutarch’s Lives offers a unique insight into the characters as well as the achievements of men who influenced their age and the empires that their culture dominated. As accessible now as when first written, Naxos AudioBooks’ premiere recording of these selections from Plutarch’s Lives will be a welcomed addition to our catalog of classic texts.

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Nicholas Farrell reads with grace and gravitas this ancient account of Greek figures. Plutarch, a Greek writer of the first and early second centuries C.E., authored PARALLEL LIVES OF GREEK AND ROMANS, containing 46 biographical portraits of significant Greeks and Romans. This audiobook presents lives of eight prominent Greeks (Lycurgus, Themistocles, Pericles, Alcibiades, Lysander, Alexander, Demosthenes, and Pyrrhus) in chronological order. The text is formal as it is an 1864 revision of an English translation from the 1780s, but Farrell handles it well, never faltering on rarely used words and unfamiliar syntax. M.L.C. (c) AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine

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  • English

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  • Lexile® Measure:1690
  • Text Difficulty:12

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