Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 1

LibriVox recording of Plutarch's "Parallel Lives of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, 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. Plutarch was not concerned with writing histories, as such, but in exploring the influence of character, good or bad, on the lives and de