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Plutarch Lives, I, Theseus and Romulus. Lycurgus and Numa. Solon and Publicola (Loeb Classical Library®) (Volume I) Hardcover – January 1, 1914

by Plutarch (Author), Bernadotte Perrin (Translator)
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Comparative biographies of distinguished Greeks and Romans.

Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45–120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given consular rank by the emperor Trajan and a procuratorship in Greece by Hadrian. He was married and the father of one daughter and four sons. He appears as a man of kindly character and independent thought, studious and learned.

Plutarch wrote on many subjects. Most popular have always been the forty-six Parallel Lives, biographies planned to be ethical examples in pairs (in each pair, one Greek figure and one similar Roman), though the last four lives are single. All are invaluable sources of our knowledge of the lives and characters of Greek and Roman statesmen, soldiers, and orators. Plutarch's many other varied extant works, about sixty in number, are known as Moralia or Moral Essays. They are of high literary value, besides being of great use to people interested in philosophy, ethics, and religion.

The Loeb Classical Library edition of the Lives is in eleven volumes.

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Bernadotte Perrin (1847–1920) was Lampson Professor of Greek Literature and History at Yale University.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harvard University Press (January 1, 1914)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 608 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0674990528
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0674990524
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.25 x 1.2 x 6.37 inches
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Plutarch (/ˈpluːtɑːrk/; Greek: Πλούταρχος, Ploútarkhos, Koine Greek: [plǔːtarkʰos]; later named, upon becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (Λούκιος Μέστριος Πλούταρχος);[a] c. AD 46 – AD 120) was a Greek historian, biographer and essayist, known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia. He is classified as a Middle Platonist. Plutarch's surviving works are believed to have been originally written in Koine Greek.

Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Photo from Parallel Lives, Amyot's French translation [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

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Ken Gleason
5.0 out of 5 stars I am not adding anything to the review already done by Arch Stanton
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So... I don't think I can add anything to the carefully written and thorough review that Arch Stanton has posted to all of the Loeb Classical Library volumes, but I will reinforce a couple of his points, along with mention some possible extra reading.

One, I love the Loeb editions. I love their history; I love the authenticity in seeing the original language on the even pages and the English translation on the odd pages; I love the Introductions (in many cases, anyway, starting with Hesiod's Theogony). I also agree that the Dryden editions can get pretty laborious to get through. I bought a pricey Easton Press reprint with the "long s's" and some Dryden-esque language that nearly stopped me from reading further. I actually prefer Sir Thomas North's translation - an English translation of a French translation - to Dryden's, but Bernadotte Perrin's is better still, a reminder that there have for some time been wonderful female classicists and philologists. (See Edith Hamilton and Constance Garnett.)

Two, I love smaller books and print fonts that emphasize readability over ornamentation (in the case of a comparison to the Easton Press editions) or over bizarre publishing restraints (in the case of a comparison to the The Great Books of the Western World, which are unreadable). The Loeb books are a perfect size and the font is reasonable in its size and clarity. They are pricey and strangely hard to find outside of through Amazon, and they are an investment. The complete Plutarch's Lives series would span eleven volumes and price out at over $300, but for me they are a work of art and history, and I love them.

Lastly, I am also a fan of Will (and Ariel) Durant's The Story of Civilization series, and their The Life of Greece and Caesar and Christ volumes make great companions to Plutarch. And actually, if you could purchase (and read) a selection of Loeb volumes including Hesiod, Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Herodotus, Thucydides, Virgil, Xenophon, Polybius, Caesar, Livy, Suetonius, Tacitus, and Plutarch; along with the eleven volumes of Durant's The Story of Civilization, you would probably obtain for $2,000 a liberal arts education unsurpassed by anyone outside of a Hillsdale or St. John's graduate. It is a wonderful time to be alive!
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Cindy
5.0 out of 5 stars good book but can be hard for 12 year old to engage
Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2012
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My 12 year old can't get into the lives written in this book very well. She does read them and does well. It is more fun for me to read them to her and we discuss them as we go.
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Sid
4.0 out of 5 stars Brief Comparison to Dryden/Clough Translation
Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2015
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I have only started reading this book, translated by Perrin, but I wanted to make a quick comparison with the "Dryden translation, edited and revised by Arthur Hugh Clough," as presented in the 1992 Modern Library edition available at my library. Consider:

Clough says: "That age produced a sort of men, in force of hand, and swiftness of foot, and strength of body, excelling the ordinary rate and wholly incapable of fatigue; making use, however, of these gifts of nature to no good or profitable purpose for mankind, but rejoicing and priding themselves in insolence, and taking the benefit of their superior strength in the exercises of inhumanity and cruelty, and in seizing, forcing, and committing all manner of outrages upon everything that fell into their hands; all respect for others, all justice, they thought, all equity and humanity, though naturally lauded by common people, either out of want of courage to commit injuries or fear to receive them, yet no way concerned those who were strong enough to win for themselves."

Where Perrin says: "For verily that age produced men who, in work of hand and speed of foot and vigour of body, were extraordinary and indefatigable, but they applied their powers to nothing that was fitting or useful. Nay rather, they exulted in monstrous insolence, and reaped from their strength a harvest of cruelty and bitterness, mastering and forcing and destroying everything that came in their path. And as for reverence and righteousness, justice and humanity, they thought that most men praised these qualities for lack of courage to do wrong and for fear of being wronged, and considered them no concern of men who were strong enough to get the upper hand."
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