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Plutarch’s Lives, Volume 1
- By: Plutarch, John Dryden - translator
- Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
- Length: 42 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Plutarch’s Lives remains one of the world’s most profoundly influential literary works. Written at the beginning of the second century, it forms a brilliant social history of the ancient world. His “parallel lives” were originally presented in a series of books that gave an account of one Greek and one Roman life, followed by a comparison of the two. Volume 1 compares Theseus and Romulus, Alcibiades and Coriolanus, and Aristides and Marcus Cato, among others.
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Plutarch -- Still Awesome
- By Lloyd on 08-03-11
- Plutarch’s Lives, Volume 1
- By: Plutarch, John Dryden - translator
- Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
narrator hard to follow
Reviewed: 12-10-19
I did not find the narrator easy to listen to. he mumbles words together like an old.man
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Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
- By: Plutarch
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 83 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Plutarch (c. AD 46-AD 120) was born to a prominent family in the small Greek town of Chaeronea, about 20 miles east of Delphi in the region known as Boeotia. His best known work is the Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of famous Greeks and Romans, arranged in pairs to illuminate their common moral virtues and vices. The surviving lives contain 23 pairs, each with one Greek life and one Roman life as well as four unpaired single lives.
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For the Very Dedicated
- By John Pinkerton on 03-13-18
- Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
- By: Plutarch
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
horrible narrator
Reviewed: 10-26-19
the narrator is hard to listen to. he has bad pacing and doesn't pause between ideas.
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