Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 2: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 2, credited to Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, 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 Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 2, by Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus 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 destinies of famous men. The first pair of lives the Epaminondas-Scipio Africanus no longer exists, and many of the remaining lives are truncated, contain obvious lacunae and/or have been tampered with by later writers. His Life of Alexander is one of the five surviving secondary or tertiary sources about Alexander the Great and it includes anecdotes and descriptions of incidents that appear in no other source. Likewise, his portrait of Numa Pompilius, an early Roman king, also contains unique information about the early Roman calendar. In this copy-right expired 11-volume translation from the Loeb Classical library, the order of the paired lives is rearranged to present the Greek lives in chronological order. Vol 2 presents the paired lives of Themistocles and Camillus, Aristides and Cato Major, and Cimon and Lucullus. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia by Karen Merline.)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 2
• Author credits: Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 23
• Listed recording duration: 8:54:52

Catalogue topics

• Audio Books
• biography
• history
• ancient history
• Greece
• Rome
• Greek history
• Roman history

Track guide

1. 01 - Themistocles pt. 1 — 29:02
2. 02 - Themistocles pt. 2 — 24:53
3. 03 - Themistocles pt. 3 — 24:28
4. 04 - Camillus pt 1 — 28:49
5. 05 - Camillus pt 2 — 24:59
6. 06 - Camillus pt 3 — 24:26
7. 07 - Camillus pt 4 — 30:06
8. 08 - Aristides pt 1 — 25:41
9. 09 - Aristides pt 2 — 23:44
10. 10 - Aristides pt 3 — 24:22
11. 11 - Aristides pt 4 — 16:32
12. 12 - Marcus Cato Major pt 1 — 24:35
13. 13 - Marcus Cato Major pt 2 — 23:10
14. 14 - Marcus Cato Major pt 3 — 25:19
15. 15 - Comparison Aristides and Cato Major — 14:20
16. 16 - Cimon pt. 1 — 26:02
17. 17 - Cimon pt 2 — 23:15
18. 18 - Lucullus pt 1 — 21:58
19. 19 - Lucullus pt 2 — 24:19
20. 20 - Lucullus pt 3 — 20:36
21. 21 - Lucullus pt 4 — 21:01
22. 22 - Lucullus pt 5 — 25:04
23. 23 - Comparison of Cimon and Lucullus — 8:21

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