Our Young Folks' Plutarch: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Our Young Folks' Plutarch, credited to Rosalie Kaufman, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Our Young Folks' Plutarch by Rosalie Kaufman. Read by LibriVox Volunteers Plutarch's Lives is a series of fifty biographies of famous Greek and Roman men written around 100 AD. In Our Young Folks' Plutarch, Rosalie Kaufman has adapted these biographies for young readers. In the preface she writes, “The lives which we here present in a condensed simple form are prepared from those of Plutarch. Plutarch says, ‘It must be borne in mind that my design is not to write histories, but lives.’ This is why anecdotes, short sayings or a word or two of repartee are frequently recorded. For they furnish a better insight into the thoughts and character of a man than his most glorious exploit, famous siege, or bloody battle. So it is lives, and not a history, that we offer; this must be borne in mind when some of the most important events the world has ever known receive insufficient mention.”

Recording facts

• Recording title: Our Young Folks' Plutarch
• Author credits: Rosalie Kaufman
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 51
• Listed recording duration: 18:40:26

Catalogue topics

• Caesar
• alexander the great
• demosthenes
• lycurgus
• pyrrhus
• plutarch's lives

Opening tracks: first 24 of 51

1. 01 - Preface — 2:54
2. 02 - Theseus — 25:01
3. 03 - Lycurgus — 30:25
4. 04 - Romulus — 24:00
5. 05 - Numa Pompilius — 23:33
6. 06 - Solon — 30:06
7. 07 - Publicola — 29:28
8. 08 - Caius Marcius Coriolanus — 28:05
9. 09 - Themistocles — 28:07
10. 10 - Aristides — 20:48
11. 11 - Cimon — 18:02
12. 12 - Pericles — 17:47
13. 13 - Nicias — 16:22
14. 14 - Alcibiades — 21:14
15. 15 - Lysander — 15:07
16. 16 - Camillus — 30:31
17. 17 - Artaxerxes — 13:35
18. 18 - Agesilaus — 20:28
19. 19 - Dion — 24:50
20. 20 - Phocion — 22:03
21. 21 - Pelopidas — 23:52
22. 22 - Timoleon — 21:13
23. 23 - Demosthenes — 17:56
24. 24 - Alexander — 52:10

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